ἄνθραξ, ἄνθρακος, ὁ, coal (also, from Thucydides and Aristophanes down, ἄνθραξ πυρός a coal of fire i. e. a burning or a live coal), live coal; Rom_12:20 ἄνθρακας πυρός σωρεύειν ἐπί τήν κεφαλήν τίνος, a proverbial expression, from Pro_25:22, signifying to call up, by the favors you confer on your enemy, the memory in him of the wrong he has done you (which shall pain him as if live coals were heaped on his head), that he may the more readily repent. The Arabians call things that cause very acute mental pain burning coals of the heart and fire in the liver; cf. Gesenius in Rosenmüller's Biblical-exeg. Repert. i., p. 140f (or in his Thesaurus i. 280; cf. also BB. DD. under the word ).

ἄνθραξ anthrax 1x a coal, burning coal, Rom_12:20

ἄνθραξ , -ακος , ὁ , [in LXX chiefly for H1513 ;] coal, charcoal: . ἄ . πυρός , a burning coal , Rom_12:20 .†

ἄνθραξ [page 43] P Petr III. 107( d ) .28 , P Lond 1159 .59 (A.D. 145 7) (= III. p. 113) ἐπὶ ξυλ καὶ ἀνθράκων καὶ φανω καὶ λαμπάδ , P Fay 348 (ii/iii A.D.) ἄνθρακο (ς ). The word also occurs ter in Michel 594 (B.C. 279), a long inscription from Delos containing the receipts and expenses of the ἱεροποιοί . It is MGr ἄνθρακας .

ἄνθραξ "charcoal, coal", Ar. , Thuc.

ἄνθραξ, -ακος, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for גֶּחֶל ;] coal, charcoal: . ἄ. πυρός, a burning coal, Rom.12:20.† (AS)