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Strong's #2766 - κέραμος
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- clay, potter's earth
- anything made of clay, earthen ware
- a roofing tile
- the roof itself
- 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"
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κέρᾰμος, ὁ,
rare pl. κέραμα, τά, PPetr. 3P. 327 (iii B.C.): —
I potter's earth, potter's clay, Pl. Ti. 60d, Arist. Mete. 384b19, etc.; κ. ὠμός, ὀπτώμενος, ib. 380b8, 383a21.
II anything made of this earth, as
1 earthen vessel, wine-jar, ἐκ κεράμων μέθυ πίνετο Il. 9.469, cf. Hdt. 3.96; in collective sense, pottery, Ar. Ach. 902, Men. Sam. 75, al.; κ. ἐσάγεται πλήρης οἴνου jars full of wine, Hdt. 3.6, cf. 5.88, Alex. 257.3, etc. jar of other material, κ. ἀργυροῦς Ptol.Euerg. 7J.
2. tile, Ar. V. 1295 (of a tortoise's shell); collectively, tiling, τοῦ τέγους τὸν κέραμον αὐτοῦ χαλάζαις.. ξυντρίψομεν Id. Nu. 1127, cf. Fr. 349, Th. 2.4; Κορίνθιος κ. IG 22.1668.58; Λακωνικός ib.463.69, 1672.188; roof, Pherecr. 130.6, Herod. 3.44, Gal. 8.26, 9.824.
3. pottery (i.e.place of manufacture), ὁ κ. ὁ χυτρικός Tab.Defix.Praef. p.iib.
III dungeon (said by Sch. to be Cyprian), χαλκέῳ ἐν κεράμῳ δέδετο Il. 5.387, cf. Thphr. Char. 6.6 cod. M; pl., Nonn. D. 16.162. (Possibly cogn. with Lat. cremo.)
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
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κέραμος is found = ";jar"; in P Hib I. 54.26 (c. B.C. 245) where amongst various articles wanted reference is made to κέραμον κα ̣[ι ]νόν. For the collective meaning ";tiling,"; as in Luke 5:19, see the accounts dealing with the building of a temple at Delos, Michel 594.52 (B.C. 279) ξύλων καὶ κεράμου, .73 κεράμου ζεύγη : cf. ib. 1387.123 (iii/B.C.) κ ]έραμον τὸν ἐπόντα καὶ θύρας τὰς ἐπούσας.
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