Original Word: στάμνος, ου, ὁ, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: stamnos
Phonetic Spelling: (stam'-nos)
Short Definition: a jar or vase
Definition: a jar or vase.STRONGS NT 4713: στάμνος

στάμνος, σταμνου (ὁ) ἡ (from ἵστημι (cf. Curtius, § 216)), among the Greeks an earthen jar, into which wine was drawn off for keeping (a process called κατασταμνίζειν), but also used for other purposes. The Sept. employ it in Exodus 16:33 as the rendering of the Hebrew צִנְצֶנֶת, that little jar (or pot) in which the manna was kept, laid up in the ark of the covenant; hence, in Hebrews 9:4, and Philo de congr. erud. grat. § 18. Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 400; (Winer's Grammar, 23).

STRONGS NT 4713a: στασιαστήςστασιαστής, στασιαστου, ὁ (στασιάζω), the author of or a participant in an insurrection: Mark 15:7 L T Tr WH ((Diodorus from 10, 11, 1, p. 171, 6 Dindorf; Dionysius Halicarnassus, ii. 1199); Josephus, Antiquities 14, 1, 3; Ptolemy). The earlier Greeks used στασιώτης (Moeris, under the word).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

jar, pot

From the base of histemi (as stationary); a jar or earthen tank -- pot.

see GREEK histemi

Forms and Transliterations

στάμνον σταμνος στάμνος stamnos stámnos

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