ὀστράκινος
ostrákinos · G3749 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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earthenware, clay
Pertaining to being made of baked clay
Examples2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen containers, so that the extraordinary greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;
2 Timothy 2:20 Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver implements, but also implements of wood and of earthenware, and some are for honor while others are for dishonor.
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
- κεραμικός keramikós · G2764 · made of clay, clay
- Greek adjective describing pottery or earthenware vessels, functionally synonymous with ὀστράκινος in describing clay-made objects
Contrasting words 2 words
- χρύσεος chrýseos · G5552 · golden, made of gold
- Greek adjective describing vessels made of gold, contrasting with earthenware as a precious/durable material versus common/fragile clay
- ἀργύρεος argýreos · G693 · of silver, made of silver
- Greek adjective describing vessels made of silver, contrasting with earthenware as a valuable/durable material versus common/fragile clay
In the other Testament 2 words
- חֶרֶשׂ cheres · H2789 · earthenware vessel, clay pot, potsherd
- Hebrew noun for vessels made of clay/pottery, the direct translation equivalent for Greek ὀστράκινος when describing earthenware vessels
- חֹמֶר chômer · H2563 · mud, clay, mortar
- Hebrew noun for clay material itself, used to describe clay vessels and pottery, a natural translation equivalent for the clayey/earthenware sense of ὀστράκινος
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Earthenware, clay2.20
- ὀστράκινος describes something made of common clay, used figuratively by Paul for the human body holding the gospel treasure: “we have this treasure in earthen containers, so that the extraordinary greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves.” (2 Corinthians 4:7)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὀστρακινη, ὀστράκινον (ὄστρακον baked clay), made of clay, earthen: σκεύη ὀστράκινα, 2…
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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