Anthrakia denotes a prepared fire used for warmth or for cooking food in the cited scenes.

The term denotes a prepared fire in two concrete settings: one where people warm themselves in the cold and another where fish and bread are set out on land.

1. A prepared fire for warmth or food · dominant

   The accusative singular feminine form occurs in John 18:18, where the APB renders a fire made because it was cold and around which servants and Peter warm themselves. In John 21:9, the APB renders a fire on land with fish lying on it and bread nearby, showing the same physical object in a food setting.

   John 18:18John 21:9

In the Anselm Project Bible: In both cited verses, the APB presents the object as a “charcoal fire,” first in a warming scene and then beside fish and bread. The verse is read as a whole, but its clauses consistently depict the same kind of prepared fire.