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

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.