Lexical Summary pyrōsis: a burning, a refining Original Word: πύρωσιςTransliteration: pyrōsis Phonetic Spelling: (poo'-ro-sis) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a burning, a refining Meaning: a burning, a refining Strong's Concordance burning, trial. From puroo; ignition, i.e. (specially), smelting (figuratively, conflagration, calamity as a test) -- burning, trial. see GREEK puroo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4451: πύρωσιςπύρωσις, πυρώσεως, ἡ (πυρόω), a burning: Revelation 18:9, 18; the burning by which metals are roasted or reduced; by a figure drawn from the refiner's fire (on which cf. Proverbs 27:21), calamities or trials that test character: 1 Peter 4:12 (Tertullian adv. Gnost. 12 ne expavescatis ustionem, quae agitur in vobis in tentationem), cf. 1 Peter 1:7 ((ἡ πύρωσις τῆς δοκιμασίας, 'Teaching etc. 16, 5 [ET])). (In the same and other senses by Aristotle, Theophrastus, Plutarch, others.) |
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