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In the New Testament, it is used metaphorically to describe the act of heaping "burning coals" on someone's head, which is a figure of speech for causing someone to feel remorse or shame that leads to repentance.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>In ancient times, coals were essential for daily life, used for cooking, heating, and metalworking. The imagery of burning coals was familiar to the original audience, symbolizing purification, judgment, or intense emotion. The metaphor of heaping burning coals on someone's head is thought to originate from an Egyptian ritual where a person showed repentance by carrying a pan of burning coals on their head.<div class="vheading2">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</div><span class="hdg">Word Origin</span><br>a prim. word<br><span class="hdg">Definition</span><br>coal, charcoal<br><span class="hdg">NASB Translation</span><br>coals (1).<p><div align="center"><span class="smalltext"><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/nasec.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe></span></div><div class="vheading2">Thayer's Greek Lexicon</div><span class="maintitle">STRONGS NT 440: ἄνθραξ</span><br><br><span class="arttitle"><span class="grktitle">ἄνθραξ</span></span>, <span class="greek2">ἄνθρακος</span>, <span class="greek2">ὁ</span>, <span class="accented">coal</span> (also, from <span class="abbreviation">Thucydides</span> and <span class="abbreviation">Aristophanes</span> down, <span class="greek2">ἄνθραξ</span> <span class="greek2">πυρός</span> <span class="accented">a coal of fire</span> i. e. a burning or a live coal), live coal; <a href="/interlinear/romans/12-20.htm">Romans 12:20</a> <span class="greek2">ἄνθρακας</span> <span class="greek2">πυρός</span> <span class="greek2">σωρεύειν</span> <span class="greek2">ἐπί</span> <span class="greek2">τήν</span> <span class="greek2">κεφαλήν</span> <span class="greek2">τίνος</span>, a proverbial expression, from <a href="/interlinear/proverbs/25-22.htm">Proverbs 25:22</a>, 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 <span class="accented">burning coals of the heart</span> and <span class="accented">fire in the liver</span>; cf. Gesenius in Rosenmüller's Biblical-exeg. Repert. i., p. 140f (or in his Thesaurus i. 280; cf. also <span class="abbreviation">BB. DD.</span> under the word <TOPIC:Coal>).<FOOTNOTE:1> <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>coal of fire. <p>Of uncertain derivation; a live coal -- coal of fire. <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>άνθρακα άνθρακά ανθρακας άνθρακας ἄνθρακας άνθρακες άνθρακος ανθράκων άνθραξ άνθραξι anthrakas ánthrakas<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/romans/12-20.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Romans 12:20</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural">N-AMP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/romans/12.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">γὰρ ποιῶν <b>ἄνθρακας</b> πυρὸς σωρεύσεις</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/romans/12.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> BURNING <span class="itali">COALS</span> ON HIS HEAD.<br><a href="/kjvs/romans/12.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> doing thou shalt heap <span class="itali">coals</span> of fire on<br><a href="/interlinear/romans/12-20.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> for doing <span class="itali">coals</span> of fire you will heap<p><b><a href="/greek/440.htm">Strong's Greek 440</a><br><a href="/greek/strongs_440.htm">1 Occurrence</a></b><br><br><a href="/greek/anthrakas_440.htm">ἄνθρακας — 1 Occ.</a><br><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="/greek/439.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="439"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="439" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/greek/441.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="441"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="441" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>