Bible word study

Pyroo (Strong’s G4448): Meaning in the Bible

Pyroo (πυρόω) is the Greek word numbered G4448 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to kindle, i.e. (passively) to be ignited, glow (literally), be refined (by implication), or (figuratively) to be inflamed (with anger, grief, lust). In the King James Bible it is translated burn, fiery, be on fire, try..

• Original wordπυρόω
• Transliterationpyróō
• Pronunciationpoo-ro'-o
• Strong’s numberG4448
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G4442;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Pyroo appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Pyroo (G4448) stands behind 6 English renderings in 6 verses across 5 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Revelation (2), 1 Corinthians (1), 2 Corinthians (1).

How the King James Bible renders Pyroo, by count

• burn2 of 6 (33 percent)
• burned1 of 6 (17 percent)
• fiery1 of 6 (17 percent)
• fire1 of 6 (17 percent)
• tried1 of 6 (17 percent)

Three places to read Pyroo

• 1 Corinthians 7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
• Ephesians 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
• Revelation 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Pyroo in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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