keramos

Strong’sG2766

a tile, the roof

stem keram-once in the New Testament1 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.

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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

κέρᾰμος, ὁ,
rare plural κέραμα, τά, Refs 3rd c.BC+:— potter's earth, potter's clay, Refs 5th c.BC+
II anything made of this earth, as
II.1 earthen vessel, wine-jar, ἐκ κεράμων μέθυ πίνετο Refs 8th c.BC+; in collective sense, pottery, Refs 5th c.BC+; κ. ἐσάγεται πλήρης οἴνου jars full of wine, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.1.b jar of other material, κ. ἀργυροῦς Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.2 tile, Refs 5th c.BC+; collectively, tiling, τοῦ τέγους τὸν κέραμον αὐτοῦ χαλάζαις.. ξυντρίψομεν Refs 5th c.BC+ roof, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 pottery (i.e.place of manufacture), ὁ κ. ὁ χυτρικός Refs
III dungeon (said by Refs 8th c.BC+. (Possibly cognate with Latin cremo.)

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.

tiles1×

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	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

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

keramoiu“tiles”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

Luke 5:19… anabainarantois epi tem dōmem dia toiu keramoiu kathiēkala auton sun te klinidie eis …… him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd …