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Lexicon :: Strong's G2766 - keramos

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κέραμος
Transliteration
keramos (Key)
Pronunciation
ker'-am-os
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from the base of κεράννυμι (G2767) (through the idea of mixing clay and water)
mGNT
1x in 1 unique form(s) TR
1x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
1x in 1 unique form(s)
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Strong’s Definitions

κέραμος kéramos, ker'-am-os; probably from the base of G2767 (through the idea of mixing clay and water); earthenware, i.e. a tile (by analogy, a thin roof or awning):—tiling.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G2766 in the following manner: tiling (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G2766 in the following manner: tiling (1x).

  1. clay, potter's earth

  2. anything made of clay, earthen ware

  3. a roofing tile

    1. the roof itself

    2. the phrase "through the roof", means through the door in the roof to which a ladder or stairway led up from the street (according to the Rabbis distinguish two ways of entering a house, "the way through the door" and "the way through the roof"

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κέραμος kéramos, ker'-am-os; probably from the base of G2767 (through the idea of mixing clay and water); earthenware, i.e. a tile (by analogy, a thin roof or awning):—tiling.
STRONGS G2766:
κέραμος, κεράμου, ὁ (κεράννυμι);
1. clay, potter's earth.
2. anything made of clay, earthen ware.
3. specifically, a (roofing) tile (Thucydides, Athen., Hdian, others); the roof itself (Aristophanes from 129 d.): so διά τῶν κεράμων, through the roof, i. e. through the door in the roof to which a ladder or stairway led up from the street (accordingly the rabbis distinguish two ways of entering a house, 'the way through the door' and 'the way through the roof' (Lightfoot Horae Hebrew, p. 601); cf. Winers RWB, under the word Dach; Keim, ii., p. 176f (English translation 3:215; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, i., 501f; Jewish Social Life, p. 93ff)), Luke 5:19. Mark (ii. 4) describes the occurrence differently (see ἀποστεγάζω), evidently led into error by misapprehending the words of Luke. (But, to say nothing of the improbability of assuming Mark's narrative to be dependent on Luke's, the alleged discrepance disappears if Luke's language is taken literally, through the tiles (see διά, A. I. 1); he says nothing of the door in the roof. On the various views that have been taken of the details of the occurrence, see B. D. (especially American edition) under the word ; Dr. James Morison, Commentary on Mark, at the passage cited.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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Luke
5:19

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Strong's Number G2766 matches the Greek κέραμος (keramos),
which occurs 1 times in 1 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:19 - but they couldn’t reach him because of the crowd. So they went up to the roof and took off some tiles. Then they lowered the sick man on his mat down into the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
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