Strong’s G4451 · Greek
πύρωσις
pýrōsis · poo'-ro-sis
Origin from πυρόω (G4448);
Meaning ignition, i.e. (specially), smelting (figuratively, conflagration, calamity as a test)
In the King James Version burning, trial.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- 1 Peter 4:12Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
- Revelation 18:9And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
- Revelation 18:18And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.