Lexical Summary stamnos: an earthen jar (for racking off wine) Original Word: στάμνοςTransliteration: stamnos Phonetic Spelling: (stam'-nos) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: an earthen jar (for racking off wine) Meaning: an earthen jar (for racking off wine) Strong's Concordance jar, potFrom the base of histemi (as stationary); a jar or earthen tank -- pot. see GREEK histemi Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4713: στάμνοςστάμνος, 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). |
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