xestos

Strong’sG3582

a Roman measure, pitcher

stem xest-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.

**† ξέστης, -ου, ὁ

(a Sicilian corruption of Lat. sextarius), [in Al.: Le 14:10 (לֹג, LXX κοτύλη)*;]

1. a sextarius (about a pint).

2. In NT, a pitcher of wood or stone: Mk 7:4.†

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

Strong’s G3582 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidxes'-tace

by implication, (of friction) to boil or heat); a vessel (as fashioned or for cooking) (or perhaps by corruption from the Latin sextarius, the sixth of a modius, i.e. about a pint), i.e. (specially), a measure for liquids or solids, (by analogy, a pitcher)

Fromas if from ξέω (properly, to smooth;

King Jamespot.

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

ξέστ-ης, ου, ὁ,
formed from Latin sextarius, a Roman measure nearly = 1 pint, Refs 1st c.AD+
II pitcher, cup, NT+3rd c.AD+, Harp.Astr.in Refs

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.

pitchers1×

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	xestos	xestois
object accusative	xeston	xestoin
direct address vocative	xestor	xestoir
of, belonging to genitive	xestou	xestoiu1×ξεστῶν
to, for dative	xesto	xestoi

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

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

xesto 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

xestoiu“pitchers”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

Mark 7:4… heim paralabala kratarō, baptismoin potērieiu kai xestoiu kai chalkieiu kai klinaiu… observe, including the washing of cups, pitchers, kettles, and couches for dining.