πίμπρημι (G4092) — Greek Lexicon

πίμπρημι

pímprēmi

G4092 verb

SILEX Entry

Definition

To fill or swell with fire or heat; to set on fire, kindle, burn. In a medical or figurative sense, to inflame, make to swell due to heat or fever (especially as a bodily condition). The primary sense refers to the act of filling with burning or causing to burn, and in secondary usage, to become feverish or swollen (as from internal heat).

Semantic Range

to burn, to set on fire, to kindle, to inflame (literally or figuratively), to swell with heat or fever, to be affected by inflammation or swelling, to become feverish

Root / Etymology

From the root πρη- (prē-) meaning 'to burn, to blow up (as in to swell/burst with heat)'; the form is a reduplicated and prolonged version, showing intensive or repeated action.

Historical & Contextual Notes

πίμπρημι appears infrequently in Koine Greek and is mostly found in medical or figurative contexts, particularly in descriptions of physical affliction such as fever, inflammation, or swelling caused by internal heat. Attested in some classical sources (e.g., Hippocratic writings) with the medical sense of 'becoming inflamed' or 'swollen through heat.' In the Septuagint and New Testament, it is rare, and its use tends to focus on states of physical burning or abnormal swelling rather than literal setting on fire. English translations that render it as 'swollen' or 'inflamed' are contextually accurate but fail to convey the word’s etymological connection to burning or fire. πίμπρημι contrasts with φλέγω ('to blaze, to flame') by emphasizing the effect of internal burning or swelling rather than external combustion.

Original Strong's Gloss (1890)

a reduplicated and prolonged form of a primary ; which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses); to fire, i.e. burn (figuratively and passively, become inflamed with fever):--be (X should have) swollen.

Root Family

πίμπρημι (pímprēmi) — to burn, to swell, to be inflamed

Root πρη- to burn, to swell, to be inflamed

Word Forms

1 distinct form

SIDANCE	Surface	Transliteration	Morphology	Common	SIBI-P1	SIBI-P2	Occurrences
`G4092-01`	πίμπρασθαι	pimprasthai	`V PRS PASS INF`	swell up	to be inflamed	to be inflamed	1

Occurrences in Scripture

1 occurrence

SIDANCE	Reference	Word	Transliteration	Morphology	Common	SIBI-P1	SIBI-P2
`G4092-01`	Acts 28:6	πίμπρασθαι	pimprasthai	`V PRS PASS INF`	swell up	to be inflamed	to be inflamed

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