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Strong's #762 - ἄσβεστος
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- unquenched, unquenchable
- of eternal hell fire to punish the damned
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ἄσβεστος, ον, also η, ον Il. 16.123: —
I unquenchable, inextinguishable, φλόξ Il. l. c.; not quenched, πῦρ ἄ. D.H. 3.67, Plu. Numbers 9:1-23; κλέος Od. 4.584; γέλως Il. 1.599; βοή 11.50; ἐργμάτων ἀκτὶς καλῶν ἄ. αἰεί Pi. I. 4(3).42; ἄ. πόρος ὠκεανοῦ ocean's ceaseless flow, A. Pr. 532 (lyr.); πῦρ, of hell, Mark 9:43.
II as Subst., ἄσβεστος (sc. τίτανος), ἡ,
1. unslaked lime, Dsc. 5.115, Plu. Sert. 17, Eum. 16; ἄ. κονία Lyc. ap. Orib. 8.25.16.
2. a mineral or gem, Plin. HN 37.146. ἀσβεστώδης· tofus, Gloss.
ἄσβεστος, 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).)
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