noun · feminine
hudrias
Strong’sG5201
a water pot
stem hudri-3 times in the New Testament3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ὑδρία, -ας, ἠ
(< ὕδωρ), [in LXX for כַּד;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5201 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhoo-dree-ah'
a water-jar, i.e. receptacle for family supply
Fromfrom G5204;
King Jameswater-pot.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ὕδωρ) water-pot, pitcher, NT+5th c.BC+; ὑδρίης πέρι δῆρις (compare ἀμφορίτης) Refs 3rd c.BC+ to break the pitcher at the door, 'there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip', Refs 4th c.BC+
II vessel of any kind, e. g. wine-pot, Refs 5th c.BC+; a pot of money, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ὑ. χαλκῆ Refs 4th c.BC+; ὑ. χρυσῆ, ἀργυρᾶ, Refs; ὑδρίαι ἄρτων πέντε bread-pans, Refs 6th c.AD+
II.2 balloting urn, especially in lawcourts, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 cinerary urn, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.4 water-clock, Refs 3rd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | hudrias | hudriais1×ὑδρίαι |
| object accusative | hudrian1×ὑδρίαν | hudriain1×ὑδρίας |
| direct address vocative | hudriar | hudriair |
| of, belonging to genitive | hudriau | hudriaiu |
| to, for dative | hudria | hudriai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
hudria is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
hudrian“water jar”objectaccusative singular1×
John 4:28afiēkata oun tan hudrian autau tas gunaikas kai aperchata eis …Then the woman left her water jar, went back into the town, and …
hudriais“water jars”subjectnominative plural1×
John 2:6ale de ekei lithinais hudriais hex kata ton katharismon toiu Ioudaioiu …Now six stone water jars had been set there for the …
hudriain“jars”objectaccusative plural1×
John 2:7legatō autoi tos Iēsus; Gemizavar tain hudriain hudeu; kai gemizala autain heōs anō.Jesus told the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them …