4570. sbennumi
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sbennumi: to quench
Original Word: σβέννυμι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: sbennumi
Phonetic Spelling: (sben'-noo-mee)
Short Definition: I extinguish, suppress
Definition: (a) I extinguish, quench, (b) I suppress, thwart.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. verb
Definition
to quench
NASB Translation
extinguish (1), going (1), put (1), quench (1), quenched (4).

Thayer's
STRONGS NT 4570: ζβέννυμι

ζβέννυμι, see σβέννυμι and under the word Sigma.

STRONGS NT 4570: σβέννυμισβέννυμι (ζβέννυμι, 1 Thessalonians 5:19 Tdf. (cf. Sigma)) and (in classics) σβεννύω; future σβέσω; 1 aorist ἐσβεσα; passive, present σβεννυμαι; from Homer down; the Sept. for כִּבָּה and דָּעַך, to extinguish, quench;

a. properly: τί, fire or things on fire, Matthew 12:20; Ephesians 6:16; Hebrews 11:34; passive (the Sept. for כָּבָה), to be quenched, to go out: Matthew 25:8; Mark 9:44, 46 (both which vss. T WH omit; Tr brackets), 48.

b. metaphorically, to quench, i. e. to suppress, stifle: τό πνεῦμα, divine influence, 1 Thessalonians 5:19 (ἀγάπην, Song of Solomon 8:7; τά πάθη, 4 Macc. 16:4; χόλον, Homer, Iliad 9, 678; ὕβριν, Plato, legg. 8, 835 d.; τόν θυμόν, ibid. 10, 888 a.).



Strong's
extinguish, quench.

A prolonged form of an apparently primary verb; to extinguish (literally or figuratively) -- go out, quench.

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