κεραμεύς
kerameús · G2763 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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potter
(Derivative of κεράμιον ‘earthenware vessel,’) One who makes earthenware vessels
ExamplesMatthew 27:7 And they conferred together and with the money bought the Potter’s Field as a burial place for strangers.
Matthew 27:10 AND THEY GAVE THEM FOR THE POTTER’S FIELD, JUST AS THE LORD DIRECTED ME.”
Romans 9:21 Or does the potter not have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one object for honorable use, and another for common use?
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔχωto have 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀγρόςfield, countryside 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- יָצַר yâtsar · H3335 · to form, to fashion, to frame
- יָצַר (yâtsar, H3335) יָצַר is the Hebrew verb meaning 'to form, fashion' (especially as a potter works clay), while κεραμεύς (kerameús, G2763) κεραμεύς is the Greek noun denoting 'a potter' (the artisan who performs that forming action); the Greek noun directly denotes the agent of the Hebrew verb's core semantic action.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Potter6.129
- κεραμεύς names the craftsman who works clay into vessels. Matthew 27:10 cites the purchase price of blood being given “for the potter’s field, just as the Lord directed,” the field taking its name from the craftsman whose clay was worked there.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κεραμέως, ὁ (κεράννυμι), a potter: Mt 27:7, Mt 27:10; Rom 9:21. (Homer, Hesiod,…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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