Quick Definition
I cauterize, sear
Strong's Definition
to brand ("cauterize"), i.e. (by implication) to render unsensitive (figuratively)
Derivation: from a derivative of G2545 (καίω);
KJV Usage: sear with a hot iron
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
καυστηριάζω: perfect passive participle κεκαυστηριασμενος, to burn in with a branding iron (τά ἵππους λύκον, a figure of a wolf Strabo 5, 1, 9, p. 215): 1Ti_4:2, Lachmann's stereotyped edition, T Tr WH on which passage see καυτηριάζω. (Not found elsewhere.)
STRONGS NT 2743: καυτηριάζωκαυτηριάζω: (καυτήριον ((cf. καίω)) a branding-iron); to mark by branding, to brand: (perfect passive participle) κεκαυτηριάσμενοι τήν ἰδίαν συνείδησιν, i. e. κεκαυτηριασμενην ἔχοντες τήν ἰδίαν συνείδησιν (cf. Winers Grammar, 230 (216)) (cf. ἀκταφθείρω) (branded in their own conscience i. e.) whose souls are branded with the marks of sin, i. e. who carry about with them the perpetual consciousness of sin, 1Ti_4:2 R G L, the major edition, see καυστηριάζω; (some (cf. R. V. marginal reading) would give it here the sense of seared, cf. Eph_4:19). (In Hippocrates in a medical sense, to cauterize, remove by cautery).)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
καυστηριάζω kaustēriazō 1x
also spelled καυτηριάζω , to cauterize, brand; pass. met. to be branded with marks of guilt, or, to be seared into insensibility, 1Ti_4:2
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† καυστηριάζω
( Rec. καυτηρ -, and so usually in Gk . writers, v. Soph., Lex. , s.v. ),
to mark by branding , brand ( AV , scar, but v. CGT , in l ): metaph ., pass . pf . ptcp ., 1Ti_4:2 ( cf. καυτήριον , 4Ma_15:22 * ).†
καυτηριάζω , Rec. for καυστηριάζω , q.v.
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
καυστηριάζω (~ καυτηριάζω ) [page 339]
Wilcken suggests as a possible restoration of BGU III. 952 .4 (ii/iii A.D.) καυστηρ̣ιά ]ζουσι τὴν γύψον . The subst. καύστης is found in ib . .5 .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
καυτηριάζω καυτηριάζω, φυτ. -άσω "to cauterise, brand": metaph. in Pass., NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
καυστηριάζω (Rec. καυτηρ-, and so usually in Gk. writers, see Soph., Lex., see word)
to mark by branding, brand (AV, scar, but see CGT, in l): metaphorically, pass. pf. ptcp., 1Ti.4:2 (cf. καυτήριον, 4Ma.15:22 *).†
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