Quick Definition
a Roman measure, pitcher
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)
Derivation: as if from (properly, to smooth;
KJV Usage: pot
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ξέστης, ξεστου, ὁ (a corruption of the Latin sextarius);
1. a sextarius, i. e. a vessel for measuring liquids, holding about a pint (Josephus, Antiquities 8, 2, 9 see βάτος; Epictetus diss. 1, 9, 33; 2, 16, 22; (Dioscor.), Galen and medical writers).
2. a wooden pitcher or ewer (Vulg.urceus (A. V. pot)) from which water or wine is poured, whether holding a sextarius or not: Mar_7:4; Mar_7:8 (here T WH omit; Tr brackets the clause).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
χέστης xestēs 1x
a sextarius, a Roman measure, containing about one pint English; in NT used for a small vessel, cup, pot, Mar_7:4
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
**† ξέστης , -ου , ὁ
(a Sicilian corruption of Lat. sextarius),
[in Al. : Lev_14:10 ( H3849 , LXX κοτύλη ) * ;]
1. a sextarius (about a pint).
2. In NT, a pitcher of wood or stone : Mar_7:4 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ξέστης [page 434]
ξέστης , a Roman dry measure ( sextarius ), rather less than a pint : cf. Ostr 1186 .2 (Rom.) οἴνου ξέσται ιβ , and see Wilcken Ostr. i. p. 762 f., Hultsch Archiv iii. p. 438. In the NT ( Mar_7:4 ) the word is used rather = cup or pitcher, whether holding a sextarius or not : cf. P Oxy VI. 921 .23 (iii/A.D.) ξέσται β̄ , two cups, ib. 109 .21 (iii/iv A.D.) ξέσται χαλκοῦ γ̄ . In an inventory of church property P Grenf II. 111 .6 (v/vi A.D.) ποτήρ (ια ) ἀργυρ (ᾶ ) γ̄ . ξέστ (ης ) ἀργυρ (οῦς ) ᾱ , ξέστης is apparently = paten : see the editors note. It should be added that Moulton ( Gr. ii. p. 155) has difficulty in believing that ξέστης is really a Latin word.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ξέστης ξέστης, ου, ὁ, = Lat. sextarius, nearly a "pint", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ξέστης, -ου, ὁ
(a Sicilian corruption of Lat. sextarius), [in Al. : Lev.14:10 (לֹג, LXX κοτύλη)* ;]
__1. a sextarius (about a pint).
__2. In NT, a pitcher of wood or stone : Mrk.7:4.†
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