ξέστης
xéstēs · G3582 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Thing
- Cooking pot, kettleHousehold43 verses
Meanings
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pitcher, jar
(A borrowing based on Latin sextarius, a Roman measure equal to about a half liter, one pint) A kind of small pitcher or jar
ExamplesMark 7:4 and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they completely cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received as traditions to firmly hold, such as the washing of cups, pitchers, and copper pots.)
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- βαπτισμόςwashing, baptism 1
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
- ὑδρία hydría · G5201 · pitcher, water jar
- Greek term for a water jar or pitcher, functionally similar vessel to ξέστης
In the other Testament 1 word
- כַּד kad · H3537 · jar, pitcher
- Hebrew term for a jar or pitcher used for water or other liquids, semantically equivalent to ξέστης as a vessel/container
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Pitcher, jar6.126
- Describing the Pharisees' ceremonial washing customs, Mark 7:4 states “and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they completely cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received as traditions to firmly hold, such as the washing of cups, pitchers, and copper pots,” where “pitchers” renders this noun.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ξεστου, ὁ (a corruption of the Latin sextarius); 1. a sextarius, i. e. a vessel for…
1. a sextarius, i. e. a vessel for measuring liquids, holding about a pint (Josephus, Antiquities 8, 2, 9 — see βάτος; Epictetus diss. 1, 9, 33; 2, 16, 22; (Dioscor.), Galen and medical writers).
2. a wooden pitcher or ewer (Vulg.urceus (A. V. pot)) from which water or wine is poured, whether holding a sextarius or not: Mk 7:4, Mk 7:8 (here T WH omit; Tr brackets the clause).
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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