noun · masculine

keramos

Greekκέραμος (keramos)

Strong’sG2766

a tile, the roof

stem keram-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

tiles1×

What it means

κεραμος, -ου, ὁ

(< κεράννυμι), [in LXX: II Ki 17:28 (יוֹצֵר כְּלִי)*;]

1. potter's clay.

2. an earthen vessel.

3. a tile: Lk 5:19.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2766 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidker'-am-os

earthenware, i.e. a tile (by analogy, a thin roof or awning)

Fromprobably from the base of G2767 (through the idea of mixing clay and water);

King Jamestiling.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	keramos	keramois
object accusative	keramon	keramoin
direct address vocative	keramor	keramoir
of, belonging to genitive	keramou	keramoiu1×κεράμων
to, for dative	keramo	keramoi

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

keramstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

keramo 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

keramoiu“tiles”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

Luke 5:19“tiles”kai mē heuriskaratois poiau eisferaleia auton dia ton ochlon anabainaratois epi tem dōmem dia toiu keramoiu kathiēkala auton sun te klinidie eis tem mesem emprosthen tou Iēsu.but they could not find a way through the crowd. So they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.