κεραμικός
keramikós · G2764 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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made of clay, clay
(Derivative of κέραμος ‘potter’s clay,’ not occurring in the NT) Pertaining to being made of potter’s clay
ExamplesRevelation 2:27 AND HE SHALL RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON, AS THE VESSELS OF THE POTTER ARE SHATTERED, as I also have received authority from My Father;
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ὀστράκινος ostrákinos · G3749 · earthenware, clay
- Greek adjective meaning 'made of earthenware/clay,' used in 2 Cor 4:7 and 2 Tim 2:20 for earthen vessels. Both κεραμικός and ὀστράκινος describe pottery/clay vessels, with ὀστράκινος being the more common NT term for this concept.
In the other Testament 1 word
- חֶרֶשׂ cheres · H2789 · earthenware vessel, clay pot, potsherd
- Hebrew term for pottery/earthenware material, the standard translation equivalent for Greek κεραμικός in the sense of 'made of clay' or 'earthen.' Both terms denote objects made from fired clay.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Made of clay, clay2.19
- κεραμικός describes something formed of fired clay. Revelation 2:27 speaks of ruling the nations with a rod of iron, “as the vessels of the potter are shattered,” the fragility of κεραμικά vessels illustrating the completeness of that judgment.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κεραμικη, κεραμικον (κέραμος); 1. in classical Greek of or belonging to a potter: hence,…
1. in classical Greek of or belonging to a potter: hence, κεραμικη γῆ, such as a potter uses, Hippocrates; τέχνη, Plato, polit., p. 288 a.
2. in the Bible made of clay, earthen: Rev 2:27 (Dan 2:41), for which the Greeks use κεραμεοῦς, κεραμεα, κεραμεουν, and κεραμιος (others κεραμειος), cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 147; (Winer's Grammar, 99 (94)).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
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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