- ἄνθραξ
- charcoal, coal
- ἄνθραξ
- a coal
- coal, charcoal, a burning coal.
- ἄνθραξ
- a live coal
Derivation: of uncertain derivation;KJV Usage: coal of fire.
- ἄνθραξ
- charcoal
- G:N-M
- ἄνθραξ, -ακος, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for גֶּחֶל ;]
coal, charcoal: . ἄ. πυρός, a burning coal, Rom.12:20.†
(AS)
1) a burning or live coalA proverbial expression signifying to call up, by favours you confer on your enemy, the memory in him of the wrong he has done you (which shall pain him as if live coals were heaped on his head), that he may the more readily repent. The Arabians call things that cause very acute mental pain "burning coals of the heart" and "fire of the liver".
ἄνθραξ
anthrax
anth'-rax
Of uncertain derivation; a live coal
KJV Usage: coal of fire.