Lexical Summary
asbestos: Unquenchable, inextinguishable
Original Word: ἄσβεστος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: asbestos
Pronunciation: as'-bes-tos
Phonetic Spelling: (as'-bes-tos)
KJV: not to be quenched, unquenchable
NASB: unquenchable
Word Origin: [from G1 (α - Alpha) (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G4570 (σβέννυμι - quenched)]
1. not extinguished
2. (by implication) perpetual
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
unquenchable.
From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of sbennumi; not extinguished, i.e. (by implication) perpetual -- not to be quenched, unquenchable.
see GREEK a
see GREEK sbennumi
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
alpha (as a neg. prefix) and sbestos (quenched, extinguished)
Definitionunquenched, unquenchable
NASB Translationunquenchable (3).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 762: ἄσβεστοςἄσβεστος,
ἄσβεστον (
σβέννυμι),
unquenched (
Ovid,
inexstinctus),
unquenchable (
Vulg.inexstinguibilis):
πῦρ,
Matthew 3:12;
Luke 3:17;
Mark 9:43, and
R G L brackets in 45. (Often in
Homer;
πῦρ ἄσβεστος of the perpetual fire of Vesta,
Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 1, 76; (of the fire on the altar,
Philo de ebriet. § 34 (Mang. i. 378); de vict. off. § 5 (Mang. 2:254); of the fire of the magi,
Strabo 15 (3) 15; see also
Plutarch, symp. 50:7, probl. 4;
Aelian nat. an. 5, 3; cf. Heinichen on
Eusebius,
h. e. 6, 41, 15).)
