Word Summary
kausoō: to burn with great heat
Original Word: καυσόωTransliteration: kausoō
Phonetic Spelling: (kow-so'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to burn with great heat
Meaning: to burn with great heat
Strong's Concordance
fervent heat.
From kausis; to set on fire -- fervent heat.
see GREEK kausis
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2741: καυσόωκαυσόω,
καύσω: (
καῦσος);
to burn up, set fire to; present participle passive
καυσουμενος,
2 Peter 3:10, 12 (
A. V. with fervent heat). (Elsewhere only (chiefly; see
Sophocles Lexicon, under the word) in
Dioscorides (
?) and Galen: to suffer from feverish burning, be parched with fever.)