Empretho means “burn up” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1714 — degel (“banner”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1714 ἐμπρήθω (empretho) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. empretho (em-pray'-tho) v. 1. to enkindle, i.e. set on fire [from G1722 and pretho "to blow a flame"] It has 29 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include burned. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
empretho (em-pray'-tho) v. 1. to enkindle, i.e. set on fire [from G1722 and pretho "to blow a flame"] KJV: burn up Root(s): G1722
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to burn
Usage: ἐμ-πίπρημι, ἐμπρήθω (for the form, see: ἐμπίπλημι, and cf. Veitch, see word πίμπρημι), [in LXX chiefly for שָׂרַף ;] to set on fire: πόλιν, Mat.22:7; pass., of the body, to become inflamed: Act.28:6 (T; πίμπρημι WH, which see).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render empretho, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1714 (ἐμπρήθω) appears 33 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
20 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Joshua stretched out his hand and his spear toward the city, and the ambuscade rose up quickly out of their place; and they came forth when he stretched out his hand; and they entered into the city, and took it; and they hastened and burned the city with fire.
And Joshua did to them, as the Lord commanded him: he houghed their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.
And they slew with the sword all that breathed in it, and utterly destroyed them all, and there was no living thing left in it; and they burned Hazor with fire.
8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
He compassed also all the children of Midian, and burned up their tabernacles, and spoiled their sheepcotes.
Then he went down into the plain of Damascus in the time of wheat harvest, and burned up all their fields, and destroyed their flocks and herds, also he spoiled their cities, and utterly wasted their countries, and smote all their young men with the edge of the sword.
And when he had taken the spoils of the city, he set it on fire, and pulled down the houses and walls thereof on every side.
First 29 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1714.
And Joshua stretched out his hand and his spear toward the city, and the ambuscade rose up quickly out of their place; and they came forth when he stretched out his hand; and they entered into the city, and took it; and they hastened and burned the city with fire.
And Joshua did to them, as the Lord commanded him: he houghed their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.
And they slew with the sword all that breathed in it, and utterly destroyed them all, and there was no living thing left in it; and they burned Hazor with fire.
But all the walled cities Israel burned not; but Israel burned Hazor only.
And Ephraim did not destroy the Canaanite who dwelt in Gezer; and the Canaanite dwelt in Ephraim until this day, until Pharaoh the king of Egypt went up and took it, and burned it with fire; and the Canaanites, and Perizzites, and the dwellers in Gaza they destroyed, and Pharaoh gave them for a dowry to his daughter.
And the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and they burned the city with fire.
And Abimelech drew near to the tower, and they besieged it; and Abimelech drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
And the Philistines said, Who has done these things? and they said, Samson the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to one of his friends; and the Philistines went up, and burned her and her father’s house with fire.
And the children of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest that he had, and they came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burned the city with fire.
And the children of Israel returned to the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword from the city of Methla, even to the cattle, and everything that was found in all the cities: and they burned with fire the cities they found.
And Absalom said to his servants, Behold, Joab’s portion in the field is next to mine, and he has in it barley; go and set it on fire. And the servants of Absalom set the field on fire: and the servants of Joab come to him with their clothes rent, and they said to him, The servants of Absalom have set the field on fire.
And he removed Ana his mother from being queen, forasmuch as she gathered a meeting in her grove: and Asa cut down her retreats, and burned them with fire in the brook of Kidron.
As the Lord thy God lives, there is not a nation or kingdom, whither my lord has not sent to seek thee; and if they said, He is not here, then has he set fire to the kingdom and its territories, because he has not found thee.
And they brought out the pillar of Baal, and burned it.
And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every house did the captain of the guard burn.
utterly destroyed every beautiful vessel.
At the end of his passages they were taken, and his cisterns they have burned with fire, and his warriors are going forth.
and he burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house; and all the houses of the city, and every great house he burned with fire.
And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and shall execute vengeance on thee in the sight of many women: and I will turn thee back from harlotry, and I will no more give thee rewards.
And stone them with the stones of a multitude, and pierce them with their swords: they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and shall burn up their houses.
But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
He compassed also all the children of Midian, and burned up their tabernacles, and spoiled their sheepcotes.
Then he went down into the plain of Damascus in the time of wheat harvest, and burned up all their fields, and destroyed their flocks and herds, also he spoiled their cities, and utterly wasted their countries, and smote all their young men with the edge of the sword.
And when he had taken the spoils of the city, he set it on fire, and pulled down the houses and walls thereof on every side.
Hereupon Judas and his host turned suddenly by the way of the wilderness unto Bozrah; and when he had won the city, he slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burned the city with fire.
This done, Judas turned aside to Mizpah; and after he had assaulted it, he took it, and slew all the males therein, and received the spoils thereof, and burned it with fire.
Furthermore at such time as they kept the feast for the victory in their country they burned Callisthenes, and some others that had set fire upon the holy gates, who had fled into a little house; and they received a reward meet for their wickedness.
And calling upon God the righteous Judge, he came against those murderers of his brethren, and burned the haven by night, and set the boats on fire, and those that fled thither he slew.
in the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burned it with fire.
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Empretho (Strong's G1714) is a Greek word most simply glossed "burn up". empretho (em-pray'-tho) v. 1. to enkindle, i.e. set on fire [from G1722 and pretho "to blow a flame"]
This page currently indexes 29 linked usages for Strong's G1714 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1714 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as burned. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 20 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1714, with linked reader references where each row is available.