Strong G2763G2763Hκεραμεύς

Potter (Field)

One of the 2 senses of Strong G2763

Transliteration
kerameus
Pronunciation
ker-am-yooce'
Morphology
Greek Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From G2766; a potter: - potter.

Detailed definition

κεραμεύς, -εως, ὁ
(κεράννυμι), [in LXX for יָצַר, Psa.2:9, Jer.18:2, al.;]
a potter: Rom.9:21; ὁ ἀγρὸς τοῦ κ., Mat.27:7, (LXX).†
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In the Bible

Strong G2763H appears in 2 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • potter2

First verses

  1. Matthew 27:7
    And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.
  2. Matthew 27:10
    And gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed me.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
κερᾰμ-εύς, έως, ὁ,
potter, ὡς ὅτε τις τροχὸν.. κεραμεὺς πειρήσεται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.601, compare 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus “Epigrammata” 14.1, etc.)]; οἱ κ., a guild at Thyatira, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“IGRom.” 4.1205: proverbial, καὶ κεραμεὺς κεραμεῖ κοτέει 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 25, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1381b16, “EN” 1155a35)]; κεραμέως πλοῦτος and κεραμεὺς ἅνθρωπος, proverbial, of anything frail and uncertain, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD: Diogenianus Paroemiographus 5.97, 98.)]
II Κεραμεῖς, Attic dialect Κεραμῆς, οἱ, name of an Attic deme, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1093 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 315d, etc.)]