Strong's Number G3582

ξέστης

xestes · xes'-tace

Transliteration:

xestes{xes'-tace}

Word Origin:

as if from xeo (properly, to smooth, by implication [of friction] to boil or heat)

Part of Speech:

noun masculine

Strong's Definition:

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)

Usage in the KJV:

pot 2

Total: 2
Occurs 1 times in the Greek text.

Definition:

a sextarius
1. a vessel for measuring liquids, holding about a pint (.5 litre)
a wooden pitcher or ewer from which water or wine is poured, whether holding a sextarius or not