Original Word: πύρωσις
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: purósis
Pronunciation: poo'-ro-sis
Phonetic Spelling: (poo'-ro-sis)
KJV: burning, trial
NASB: burning, fiery ordeal
Word Origin: [from G4448 (πυρόω - burn)]

1. ignition
2. (specially) smelting
3. (figuratively) conflagration, calamity as a test

burning, trial.

From puroo; ignition, i.e. (specially), smelting (figuratively, conflagration, calamity as a test) -- burning, trial.

see GREEK puroo

Word Origin
from puroó
Definition
a burning, hence a refining
NASB Translation
burning (2), fiery ordeal (1).

STRONGS NT 4451: πύρωσις

πύρωσις, πυρώσεως, ἡ (πυρόω), a burning: Revelation 18:9, 18; the burning by which metals are roasted or reduced; by a figure drawn from the refiner's fire (on which cf. Proverbs 27:21), calamities or trials that test character: 1 Peter 4:12 (Tertullian adv. Gnost. 12 ne expavescatis ustionem, quae agitur in vobis in tentationem), cf. 1 Peter 1:7 ((ἡ πύρωσις τῆς δοκιμασίας, 'Teaching etc. 16, 5 [ET])). (In the same and other senses by Aristotle, Theophrastus, Plutarch, others.)

Forms and Transliterations

πυρωσει πυρώσει πυρωσεως πυρώσεως πύρωσις πυρωτών purosei purōsei puroseos purōseōs pyrosei pyrōsei pyrṓsei pyroseos pyrōseōs pyrṓseos pyrṓseōs

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