noun · masculine
keramevos
Strong’sG2763
a potter
stem keramev-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
κεραμεύς, -εως, ὁ
(< κεράννυμι), [in LXX for יצר, Ps 2:9, Je 18:2, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2763 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidker-am-yooce'
a potter
Fromfrom G2766;
King Jamespotter.
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
potter, ὡς ὅτε τις τροχὸν.. κεραμεὺς πειρήσεται Refs 8th c.BC+; οἱ κ., a guild at Thyatira, Refs 8th c.BC+; κεραμέως πλοῦτος and κεραμεὺς ἅνθρωπος, proverbial, of anything frail and uncertain, Refs 4th c.AD+
II Κεραμεῖς, Attic dialect Κεραμῆς, οἱ, name of an Attic deme, Refs 5th 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 | keramevos1×κεραμεὺς | keramevois |
| object accusative | keramevon | keramevoin |
| direct address vocative | keramevor | keramevoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | keramevou2×Κεραμέως | keramevoiu |
| to, for dative | keramevo | keramevoi |
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
keramevo 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
keramevos“potter”subjectnominative singular1×
Romans 9:21ē ouk echatō exousian tos keramevos tou pēlou ek teu auteu furameu …Does not the potter have the right to make from …
keramevou“potter’s”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Matthew 27:7… agorazala ek auteiu ton Agron tou Keramevou eis tafan toi xenoi.… used the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for …
Matthew 27:10… dōala auteim eis ton agron tou keramevou, katha suntassata mi kurios.and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord had commanded …