Strong's Concordance asbestos: unquenched, unquenchable Original Word: ἄσβεστος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: asbestos Phonetic Spelling: (as'-bes-tos) Short Definition: inextinguishable, unquenchable Definition: inextinguishable, unquenchable. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 762: ἄσβεστοςἄσβεστος, ἄσβεστον (σβέννυμι), unquenched (Ovid,inexstinctus), unquenchable (Vulg.inexstinguibilis): πῦρ, Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17; Mark 9:43, and R G L brackets in 45. (Often in Homer; πῦρ ἄσβεστος of the perpetual fire of Vesta, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 1, 76; (of the fire on the altar, Philo de ebriet. § 34 (Mang. i. 378); de vict. off. § 5 (Mang. 2:254); of the fire of the magi, Strabo 15 (3) 15; see also Plutarch, symp. 50:7, probl. 4; Aelian nat. an. 5, 3; cf. Heinichen on Eusebius, h. e. 6, 41, 15).) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance unquenchable. From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of sbennumi; not extinguished, i.e. (by implication) perpetual -- not to be quenched, unquenchable. see GREEK a see GREEK sbennumi Forms and Transliterations ασβεστον άσβεστον ἄσβεστον ασβεστω ασβέστω ἀσβέστῳ ασβόλην asbesto asbestō asbéstoi asbéstōi asbeston ásbestonLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 7624 Occurrences ἀσβέστῳ — 2 Occ. ἄσβεστον — 2 Occ. Matthew 3:12 Adj-DNS GRK: κατακαύσει πυρὶ ἀσβέστῳ NAS: up the chaff with unquenchable fire. KJV: the chaff with unquenchable fire. INT: he will burn up with fire unquenchable Mark 9:43 Adj-ANS Mark 9:45 Adj-ANS Luke 3:17 Adj-DNS |
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