κεράμιον
kerámion · G2765 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Thing
- Clay jarContainers for storage25 verses
Meanings
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jar, vessel
An earthenware container for storing or carrying liquids
ExamplesMark 14:13 And He sent two of His disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you; follow him;
Luke 22:10 And He said to them, “When you have entered the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you; follow him into the house that he enters.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὕδωρwater 2
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- βαστάζωto carry, to bear 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- ὑδρία hydría · G5201 · pitcher, water jar
- A water jar or vessel, typically earthenware, used specifically for carrying or storing water; overlaps with κεράμιον in denoting an earthenware container but is more specifically tied to water usage.
- σκεῦος skeûos · G4632 · object, thing, vessel
- A general term for vessel or container that can include earthenware jars among many other types of containers; broader than κεράμιον but can substitute for it when the specific material is less emphasized.
In the other Testament 2 words
- כַּד kad · H3537 · jar, pitcher
- The standard Hebrew term for an earthenware jar or pitcher, used for carrying water and other liquids; translators regularly employ this as the Hebrew equivalent when rendering κεράμιον concepts into Hebrew contexts.
- נֶבֶל nebel · H5035 · skin-bottle, wineskin, jar
- A large jar or container for wine, water, or other liquids; while it can also denote a skin-bottle, it frequently refers to earthenware vessels and overlaps semantically with κεράμιον as a liquid-carrying vessel.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Jar, vessel6.128
- κεράμιον names an earthenware container used for carrying water or other liquids. Mark 14:13 instructs the disciples that “a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you; follow him,” the κεράμιον serving as their identifying sign for finding the guest room.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κεραμίου, τό (neuter of the add. κεραμιος, see the preceding word (others make it a…
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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