Strong's #4448: puroo (pronounced poo-ro'-o)

from 4442; to kindle, i.e. (passively) to be ignited, glow (literally), be refined (by implication), or (figuratively) to be inflamed (with anger, grief, lust):--burn, fiery, be on fire, try.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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puroō

1) to burn with fire, to set on fire, kindle

1a) to be on fire, to burn

1a1) to be incensed, indignant

1b) make to glow

1b1) full of fire, fiery, ignited

1b1a) of darts filled with inflammable substances and set on fire

1b2) melted by fire and purged of dross

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G4442

Citing in TDNT: 6:948, 975

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

1 Corinthians 7:9: "it is better to marry than to burn."
2 Corinthians 11:29: "who is offended, and I burn not?"
Ephesians 6:16: "ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked."
2 Peter 3:12: "of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements"
Revelation 1:15: "like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his"
Revelation 3:18: "of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich;"