pur denotes fire as a burning force, including material flames, destructive punishment, testing, and vivid imagery.

The term most often denotes fire as a consuming or punitive force in scenes of burning, judgment, and destruction. It also names ordinary visible flame, appears in testing imagery, and occurs in descriptions of flames, radiance, and fiery manifestations.

1. Consuming or punitive fire · dominant

   This use occurs where people, chaff, branches, or adversaries face burning or destruction: in Matthew 13:40 the APB renders weeds gathered and burned, and in Matthew 13:42 it renders people thrown into a furnace. Revelation 19:20 and Revelation 20:10 place hostile figures in a lake burning with sulfur, while 2 Peter 3:7 describes the heavens and earth as kept for fire toward judgment.

   Matthew 13:40Matthew 13:42Luke 3:17Hebrews 10:27Revelation 19:20Revelation 20:10
2. Material flame and its burning effect · common

   The noun names observable fire in ordinary or destructive physical settings. In Acts 28:5 the APB renders an animal shaken off into the fire; Luke 22:55 describes a fire lit in a courtyard; and James 3:5 compares a great fire setting a forest ablaze.

   Acts 28:5Luke 22:55Mark 9:22Matthew 17:15Hebrews 11:34James 3:5
3. Fire in testing and consuming imagery · common

   In 1 Corinthians 3:13, where the supplied form is tagged singular neuter dative, the APB renders fire revealing and testing each person's work. 1 Peter 1:7 likewise places fire in the testing of perishable gold, while James 3:6 calls the tongue a fire and describes its destructive spread.

   1 Corinthians 3:131 Corinthians 3:151 Peter 1:7James 3:6James 5:3Mark 9:49
4. Flame in manifestations and visionary description · occasional

   The term occurs in descriptions of fiery appearance or manifestation rather than an act of burning. Acts 2:3 renders dividing tongues as of fire, Acts 7:30 a flame in a burning thorn bush, and Revelation 1:14 eyes like a flame of fire.

   Acts 2:3Acts 7:30Hebrews 1:7Revelation 1:14Revelation 10:1Revelation 19:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly presents the noun with “fire,” including “flame of fire,” “furnace of fire,” and “lake of fire.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these phrases confirm the scenes but do not by themselves fix every contextual nuance of the Greek term.