Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong's Definition
to brand ("cauterize"), i.e. (by implication) to render unsensitive (figuratively)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
also spelled καυτηριάζω, to cauterize, brand; pass. met. to be branded with marks of guilt, or, to be seared into insensibility, 1 Tim. 4:2*
Translated in KJV as
sear with a hot iron
Etymology
from a derivative of G2545 (καίω);
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