Quick Definition
I kindle, set on fire
Strong's Definition
to enkindle
Derivation: from G303 (ἀνά) and G681 (ἅπτω);
KJV Usage: kindle, light
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀνάπτω; 1 aorist ἀνηψα; 1 aorist passive ἀνήφθην; to light up, kindle: Luk_12:49; Act_28:2 (R G); Jas_3:5. (From Herodotus down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀνάπτω anaptō 2x
to light, kindle, set on fire, Luk_12:49 ; Jas_3:5
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀν -άπτω ,
[in LXX chiefly for H3318 ;]
to kindle: Luk_12:49 , Jas_3:5 ( MM , VGT , s.v. ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀνάπτω [page 37]
P Giss I. 3 .8 (meant to be literary A.D. 117) τοιγαροῦν θύοντες τὰς ἑστίας ἀνάπτωμεν . P Leid W xv. 35 (occult) ἀνάψας τὼ βομών ( l. τὸν βωμόν ). (MGr ἀνάφτω .)
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀνάπτω "to make fast on or to" a thing, ἐξ ἱστοῦ πείρατ᾽ ἀνῆπτον "made fast" the rope to the mast, Od. :—Mid., ἐκ τοῦδ᾽ ἀναψόμεσθα κάλων to him will we "make fast our" cable, i. e. he shall be our protector, Eur. :—Pass. "to fasten oneself on to, cling to" a thing, c. gen., id=Eur. ; ἀμφί τινι id=Eur. ; ἀνῆφθαί τι "to have" a thing "fastened on" one, id=Eur. "to hang up" in a temple, "offer up", ἀγάλματα Od. metaph. "to attach to", μῶμον ἀνάψαι id=Od. ; αἷμα ἀν. τινί a charge of bloodshed, Eur. "to light up, light", λύχνα Hdt. ; πῦρ Eur. ; also, πυρὶ ἀν. δόμους id=Eur. :—metaph., νέφος οἰμωγῆς ὡς τάχ᾽ ἀνάψει id=Eur.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀν-άπτω
[in LXX chiefly for יָצָא ;]
to kindle: Luk.12:49, Jas.3:5 (MM, VGT, see word).†
(AS)