Definition

a bed of burning coals

Etymology

from G440 (ἄνθραξ);

Word family

• ἄνθραξ ánthrax

How the KJV renders it

• fire of coals

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.