Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
to set fire
Usage: ἀν-άπτω [in LXX chiefly for יָצָא ;] to kindle: Luk.12:49, Jas.3:5 (MM, VGT, see word).† (AS)
Anapto means “kindle” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H381 — ishchayil (“a valiant man”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G381 ἀνάπτω (anapto) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. anapto (an-ap'-to) v. 1. to enkindle [from G303 and G681] It has 24 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include fire, lord, kindled, flame, and kindle. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
anapto (an-ap'-to) v. 1. to enkindle [from G303 and G681] KJV: kindle, light Root(s): G303, G681
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to set fire
Usage: ἀν-άπτω [in LXX chiefly for יָצָא ;] to kindle: Luk.12:49, Jas.3:5 (MM, VGT, see word).† (AS)
Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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 G381 (ἀνάπτω) appears 21 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
3 indexed usages in New Testament.
I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
18 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
they sacrifice to the Lord whole burnt offering, morning and evening, and compound incense, and set the showbread on the pure table; and there is the golden candlestick, and the lamps for burning, to light in the evening: for we keep the charge of the Lord God of our fathers; but ye have forsaken him.
There went up a smoke in his wrath, And fire burst into a flame at his presence: Coals were kindled at it.
Therefore the Lord heard, and was provoked: And fire was kindled in Jacob, And wrath went up against Israel.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
When this was done, and the time came that the sun shone, which afore was hidden in the cloud, there was a great fire kindled, so that every man marveled.
When this was done, there was kindled a flame: but it was consumed by the light that shined from the altar.
Others likewise ascending after them, whiles they were busied with them that were within, burned the towers, and kindling fires burned the blasphemers alive; and others broke open the gates, and, having received in the rest of the army, took the city,
First 24 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G381.
they sacrifice to the Lord whole burnt offering, morning and evening, and compound incense, and set the showbread on the pure table; and there is the golden candlestick, and the lamps for burning, to light in the evening: for we keep the charge of the Lord God of our fathers; but ye have forsaken him.
There went up a smoke in his wrath, And fire burst into a flame at his presence: Coals were kindled at it.
Therefore the Lord heard, and was provoked: And fire was kindled in Jacob, And wrath went up against Israel.
Who is the wise man, that he may understand this? and he that has the word of the mouth of the Lord addressed to him, let him tell you wherefore the land has been destroyed, has been ravaged by fire like a desert, so that no one passes through it.
The Lord called thy name a fair olive tree, of a goodly shade in appearance, at the noise of its being lopped, fire was kindled against it; great is the affliction coming upon thee: her branches are become good for nothing.
But it shall come to pass, if ye will not hearken to me to sanctify the Sabbath day, to bear no burdens, nor go in with them by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the streets of Jerusalem, and shall not be quenched.
O house of David, thus saith the Lord; Judge judgment in the morning, and act rightly, and rescue the spoiled one from the hand of him that wrongs him, lest mine anger be kindled like fire, and it burn, and there be none to quench it.
And I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
And thy pride shall fail, and fall, and there shall be no one to set it up again: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.
He has broken in his fierce anger All the horn of Israel: He has turned back his right hand From the face of the enemy, And has kindled a flame in Jacob as fire, And it has devoured all things round about.
The Lord has accomplished his wrath; He has poured out his fierce anger, And has kindled a fire in Zion, And it has devoured her foundations.
Depart ye from the unclean ones: Call ye them: depart, depart, touch them not: For they are on fire, yea, they stagger: Say ye among the nations, They shall no more sojourn there.
and thou shalt say to the forest of Negeb, Hear the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord, even the Lord; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour in thee every green tree, and every dry tree: the flame that is kindled shall not be quenched, and every face shall be scorched with it from the south to the north.
To thee, O Lord, will I cry: for fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness, and a flame has burned up all the trees of the field.
Before them is a consuming fire, and behind them is a flame kindled: the land before them is as a paradise of delight, and behind them a desolate plain: and there shall none of them escape.
And I will kindle a fire on the walls of Rabbah, and it shall devour her foundations with shouting in the day of war, and she shall be shaken in the days of her destruction:
Because even among you the doors shall be shut, and one will not kindle the fire of mine altar for nothing, I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will not accept a sacrifice at your hands.
For, behold, a day comes burning as an oven, and it shall consume them; and all the aliens, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that is coming shall set them on fire, saith the Lord Almighty, and there shall not be left of them root or branch.
I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
When this was done, and the time came that the sun shone, which afore was hidden in the cloud, there was a great fire kindled, so that every man marveled.
When this was done, there was kindled a flame: but it was consumed by the light that shined from the altar.
Others likewise ascending after them, whiles they were busied with them that were within, burned the towers, and kindling fires burned the blasphemers alive; and others broke open the gates, and, having received in the rest of the army, took the city,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G381, grouped by book.
Anapto (Strong's G381) is a Greek word most simply glossed "kindle". anapto (an-ap'-to) v. 1. to enkindle [from G303 and G681]
This page currently indexes 24 linked usages for Strong's G381 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G381 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 fire, lord, kindled, flame, kindle, and day. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 18 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G381, with linked reader references where each row is available.