For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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πῦρ
Vocabulary form:
pu:r, purovV, tov
Definition:
fire
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
71
GK:
4786
Root:
pur
Cognates:
A pyromaniac is a person who has a compulsive desire to start destructive fires.
Mnemonics:
Pour water on the fire!
Mnemonic Singing:
Fire and ice, darkness and light,
can never live together.
Biblical Concordance
| Matthew 3:10 | Even now the axe is lying at the root of the trees; so any tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire (pyr | πῦρ | acc sg neut). |
| Matthew 3:11 | “I baptize you with water for repentance, but the one who comes after me is greater than I — I am not worthy even to remove his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire (pyri | πυρί | dat sg neut). |
| Matthew 3:12 | His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.” (pyri | πυρί | dat sg neut) |
| Matthew 5:22 | But I say to you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raka,’ will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut). |
| Matthew 7:19 | Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire (pyr | πῦρ | acc sg neut). |
| Matthew 13:40 | Therefore just as the weeds are gathered and burned in the fire (pyri | πυρί | dat sg neut), so it will be at the end of the age. |
| Matthew 13:42 | And they will throw them into the fiery (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut) furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. |
| Matthew 13:50 | and cast them into the fiery (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut) furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. |
| Matthew 17:15 | and said, “Lord, take pity on my son, because he is an epileptic and suffers terribly; for he often falls into the fire (pyr | πῦρ | acc sg neut) and often into the water. |
| Matthew 18:8 | “If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into eternal fire (pyr | πῦρ | acc sg neut). |
| Matthew 18:9 | And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut). |
| Matthew 25:41 | “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed ones, to the eternal fire (pyr | πῦρ | acc sg neut) prepared for the devil and his angels. |
| Mark 9:22 | indeed frequently it has even cast him into fire (pyr | πῦρ | acc sg neut) and into water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” |
| Mark 9:43 | And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life crippled than having two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire (pyr | πῦρ | acc sg neut). |
| Mark 9:48 | where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire (pyr | πῦρ | nom sg neut) is not quenched.’ |
| Mark 9:49 | For everyone will be salted with fire (pyri | πυρί | dat sg neut). |
| Luke 3:9 | Indeed, already the axe is laid to the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire (pyr | πῦρ | acc sg neut). |
| Luke 3:16 | John gave an answer to all, saying, “I indeed baptize you with water, but there is coming one who is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He it is who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire (pyri | πυρί | dat sg neut). |
| Luke 3:17 | His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” (pyri | πυρί | dat sg neut) |
| Luke 9:54 | Seeing this, his disciples James and John said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire (pyr | πῦρ | acc sg neut) to come down from heaven and consume them?” |
| Luke 12:49 | “I came to cast fire (pyr | πῦρ | acc sg neut) on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! |
| Luke 17:29 | but on the day in which Lot went out of Sodom, fire (pyr | πῦρ | acc sg neut) and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. |
| Luke 22:55 | Some people had kindled a fire (pyr | πῦρ | acc sg neut) in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together. Peter sat down among them. |
| John 15:6 | If anyone does not abide in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; men gather them and throw them into the fire (pyr | πῦρ | acc sg neut), and they are burned. |
| Acts 2:3 | And there appeared to them tongues spreading out like fire (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut), and one came to rest on each one of them. |
| Acts 2:19 | And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire (pyr | πῦρ | acc sg neut), and smoky vapor. |
| Acts 7:30 | “Now when forty years had passed, there appeared to him in the desert near Mount Sinai an angel in the flame of a burning (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut) bush. |
| Acts 28:5 | But Paul shook the creature off into the fire (pyr | πῦρ | acc sg neut) and suffered no harm. |
| Romans 12:20 | To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by doing this you will heap burning (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut) coals on his head.” |
| 1 Corinthians 3:13 | the work of each person will become evident, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire (pyri | πυρί | dat sg neut). And the fire (pyr | πῦρ | nom sg neut) will test what sort of work each has done. |
| 1 Corinthians 3:15 | If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; however, he himself will be saved, but only as through fire (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut). |
| 2 Thessalonians 1:8 | in flaming fire (pyri | πυρί | dat sg neut), inflicting punishment on those who do not know God, and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. |
| Hebrews 1:7 | Regarding the angels he says, “He makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.” (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut) |
| Hebrews 10:27 | but only a terrifying expectation of judgment and of raging fire (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut) ready to consume the adversaries. |
| Hebrews 11:34 | extinguished raging flames (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut), escaped the edge of the sword; who after weakness were made strong, who became mighty in war and put foreign armies to flight. |
| Hebrews 12:18 | For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a blazing fire (pyri | πυρί | dat sg neut), and darkness, and gloom, and a whirlwind; |
| Hebrews 12:29 | for indeed our God is a consuming fire (pyr | πῦρ | nom sg neut). |
| James 3:5 | So also is the tongue a small member, yet it boasts of great things. See how large a forest is set on fire by such a small flame (pyr | πῦρ | nom sg neut). |
| James 3:6 | And the tongue is a fire! (pyr | πῦρ | nom sg neut) The tongue is a world of iniquity among our members; it defiles the whole body, sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell. |
| James 5:3 | Your gold and your silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you, and it will consume your flesh like fire (pyr | πῦρ | nom sg neut). You have stored up treasure for the last days. |
| 1 Peter 1:7 | so that the genuineness of your faith (which is more precious than gold that perishes), having been tested by fire (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut), may be found to your praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. |
| 2 Peter 3:7 | But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire (pyri | πυρί | dat sg neut), kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. |
| Jude 1:7 | Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, which indulged in sexual immorality in the same way as the angels and pursued unnatural desire, are exhibited as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut). |
| Jude 1:23 | save others by snatching them out of the fire (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut); and have mercy on others with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh. |
| Revelation 1:14 | His head and his hair were white, like white wool, like snow, and his eyes were like a flame of fire (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut). |
| Revelation 2:18 | “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: The Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut) and whose feet are like burnished bronze, has this to say: |
| Revelation 3:18 | I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut) so you can be rich; and white garments to clothe yourself so your shameful nakedness will not be exposed; and salve to put on your eyes so you can see! |
| Revelation 4:5 | Out from the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder. Seven torches of fire (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut), which are the seven spirits of God, were burning before the throne, |
| Revelation 8:5 | Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire (pyros | πυρός | gen sg neut) from the altar and threw it down on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake. |
| Revelation 8:7 | The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire (pyr | πῦρ | nom sg neut), mixed with blood, and it was thrown down on the earth, and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up. |
Mnemonics
I loved the mnemonic singing
I loved the mnemonic singing on this one, i will never forget it!