Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
charcoal
Usage: ἄνθραξ, -ακος, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for גֶּחֶל ;] coal, charcoal: . ἄ. πυρός, a burning coal, Rom.12:20.† (AS)
Anthrax means “coal of fire” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H440 — eloni (“Elonites”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G440 ἄνθραξ (anthrax) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. anthrax (anth'-rax) n. 1. a live coal [of uncertain derivation] It has 31 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include coals. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
anthrax (anth'-rax) n. 1. a live coal [of uncertain derivation] KJV: coal of fire
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G440. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
charcoal
Usage: ἄνθραξ, -ακος, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for גֶּחֶל ;] coal, charcoal: . ἄ. πυρός, a burning coal, Rom.12:20.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render anthrax, 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 G440 (ἄνθραξ) appears 30 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.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
27 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the gold of that land is good, there also is carbuncle and emerald.
And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper.
and the second row, a carbuncle and sapphire and jasper;
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And the streets of Jerusalem shall be paved with beryl and carbuncle and stone of Ophir.
Kindle not the coals of a sinner, Lest thou be burned with the flame of his fire.
For all these things are to be done because of the commandment.
First 31 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G440.
And the gold of that land is good, there also is carbuncle and emerald.
And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper.
and the second row, a carbuncle and sapphire and jasper;
And he shall take his censer full of coals of fire off the altar, which is before the Lord; and he shall fill his hands with fine compound incense, and shall bring it within the veil.
And behold the whole family rose up against thy handmaid, and they said, Give up the one that smote his brother, and we will put him to death for the life of his brother, whom he slew, and we will take away even your heir: so they will quench my coal that is left, so as not to leave my husband remnant or name on the face of the earth.
There went up a smoke in his wrath, And fire out of his mouth devours: Coals were kindled at it.
At the brightness before him Coals of fire were kindled.
Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace Burning with fire of coals.
His breath is as live coals, And a flame goes out of his mouth.
There went up a smoke in his wrath, And fire burst into a flame at his presence: Coals were kindled at it.
At the brightness before him the clouds passed, Hail and coals of fire.
Sharpened weapons of the mighty, With coals of the desert.
Coals of fire shall fall upon them on the earth; And thou shalt cast them down in afflictions: They shall not bear up under them.
And not burn his feet?
Therefore as stubble shall be burned by a coal of fire, and shall be consumed by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word of the Holy One of Israel.
And there was sent to me one of the seraphs, and he had in his hand a coal, which he had taken off the altar with the tongs:
And one has not considered in his mind, nor known in his understanding, that he has burned up half of it in the fire, and baked loaves on the coals thereof and has roasted and eaten flesh, and of the rest of it he has made an abomination, and they worship it.
Behold, they all shall be burned up as sticks in the fire; neither shall they at all deliver their life from the flame. Because thou hast coals of fire, sit thou upon them;
Afflicted and outcast thou hast not been comforted: behold, I will prepare carbuncle for thy stones, and sapphire for thy foundations;
Behold, I have created thee, not as the coppersmith blowing coals, and bringing out a vessel fit for work; but I have created thee, not for ruin, that I should destroy thee.
And in the midst of the living creatures there was an appearance as of burning coals of fire, as an appearance of lamps turning among the living creatures; and the brightness of fire, and out of the fire came forth lightning.
And he said to the man clothed with the long robe, Go in between the wheels that are under the cherubs, and fill thy hands with coals of fire from between the cherubs, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
And I saw, and behold, four wheels stood by the cherubs, one wheel by each cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of a carbuncle stone.
and that it may stand upon the coals, that her brass may be thoroughly heated, and be melted in the midst of her filthiness, and her scum may be consumed,
Thou wast in the delight of the paradise of God; thou hast bound upon thee every precious stone, the sardius, and topaz, and emerald, and carbuncle, and sapphire, and jasper, and silver, and gold, and ligure, and agate, and amethyst, and chrysolite, and beryl, and onyx: and thou hast filled thy treasures and thy stores in thee with gold.
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
And the streets of Jerusalem shall be paved with beryl and carbuncle and stone of Ophir.
Kindle not the coals of a sinner, Lest thou be burned with the flame of his fire.
For all these things are to be done because of the commandment.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G440, grouped by book.
Anthrax (Strong's G440) is a Greek word most simply glossed "coal of fire". anthrax (anth'-rax) n. 1. a live coal [of uncertain derivation]
This page currently indexes 31 linked usages for Strong's G440 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G440 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 coals. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 27 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G440, with linked reader references where each row is available.