Strong's Greek #762 - ἄσβεστος, ον asbestos (unquenched)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance unquenchable. From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of sbennumi; not extinguished, i.e. (by implication) perpetual -- not to be quenched, unquenchable. see GREEK a see GREEK sbennumi Thayer's Greek LexiconStrong's 762: ἄσβεστοςἄσβεστος, ἄσβεστον (σβέννυμι), unquenched (Ovid,inexstinctus), unquenchable (Vulg.inexstinguibilis): πῦρ, Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17; Mark 9:43, and R G L brackets in 45. (Often in Homer; πῦρ ἄσβεστος of the perpetual fire of Vesta, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 1, 76; (of the fire on the altar, Philo de ebriet. § 34 (Mang. i. 378); de vict. off. § 5 (Mang. 2:254); of the fire of the magi, Strabo 15 (3) 15; see also Plutarch, symp. 50:7, probl. 4; Aelian nat. an. 5, 3; cf. Heinichen on Eusebius, h. e. 6, 41, 15).)Englishman's Concordance (References)Strong's Greek: 762. ἄσβεστος (asbestos) — 4 OccurrencesMatthew 3:12 - Adj-DNS Mark 9:43 - Adj-ANS Mark 9:45 - Adj-ANS Luke 3:17 - Adj-DNS |