Vocabulary Form
πῦρ, πυρός, τό
Definition

fire

Erasmian
Modern
Root
πυρ
Frequency
71
GK
4786
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.

Song

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.