ἄντλημα
ántlēma · G502 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Thing
- Containers, vesselsHousehold59 verses
Meanings
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container, vessel
A container or vessel, primarily for liquids or wet objects; perhaps made of leather, used for drawing water
ExamplesJohn 4:11 She said to Him, “Sir, You have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do You get this living water?
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
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔχωto have 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 2 words
- ὑδρία hydría · G5201 · pitcher, water jar
- Both are vessels for water, but ὑδρία is specifically a water jar/pot (often larger, for storage or carrying), while ἄντλημα is specifically a vessel for drawing/baling water from a source; they overlap as water containers but differ in primary function
- σκεῦος skeûos · G4632 · object, thing, vessel
- General term for any vessel or container; ἄντλημα is a specific type of vessel (a baling/drawing vessel), making σκεῦος the broader generic category
In the other Testament 1 word
- דְּלִי dᵉlîy · H1805 · bucket, branch
- Hebrew term for a bucket or water-drawing vessel, the standard translation equivalent for a vessel used to draw water; both refer to containers for drawing/carrying water
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Container, vessel6.123
- In John 4:11, the Samaritan woman tells Jesus, “Sir, You have no bucket (ántlēma) and the well is deep; where then do You get this living water?” naming the vessel needed to draw water from a well.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀντλητος, τό; a. properly, what is drawn, (Dioscor. 4, 64). b. the act of drawing water…
a. properly, what is drawn, (Dioscor. 4, 64).
b. the act of drawing water (Plutarch, mor. (de solert. an. 21, 1), p. 974 e. (but this example belongs rather under c.)).
c. a thing to draw with (cf. Winers Grammar, 93 (89)), bucket and rope let down into a well: Jn 4:11.
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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