Quick Definition
a jar or vase
Strong's Definition
a jar or earthen tank
Derivation: from the base of G2476 (ἵστημι) (as stationary);
KJV Usage: pot
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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 Exo_16:33 as the rendering of the Hebrew φΔπΐφΖπΖϊ, that little jar (or pot) in which the manna was kept, laid up in the ark of the covenant; hence, in Heb_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: Mar_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).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
στάμνος stamn os 1x
can be masculine, but not in the NT, a wine jar; a pot, jar, urn, vase, Heb_9:4
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
στάρνος , -ου (ὁ and), ἡ ,
[in LXX : Exo_16:33 ( H6803 ), 1Ki_12:24 ; 1Ki_14:3 ( H1228 ), Da LXX Bel, 1:32 * ;]
prop .,
an earthen jar for racking off wine, hence, generally, a jar: Heb_9:4 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
στάμνος [page 586]
an earthenware jar for racking off wine, and then a jar generally, holding e.g. money, P Par 35 .20 (B.C. 163) (= UPZ i. p. 130) στάμνον , ἐν ᾧ καὶ ἐνῆσαν χαλκοί , P Tebt I. 46 .35 (B.C. 113) στάμνον ἐν ὧι χα (λκοῦ ) Ᾱχ̄ , a jar containing 1600 drachmae of copper ; wine, P Oxy I. 114 .10 (ii/iii A.D.) σιτέρινον μέγα καὶ στάμνον , a big tin flask and a wine-jar ; milk, BGU IV, 1055 .16 (B.C. 13) στάμμνον ὀκτοκαίδεκα κοτυρον γάλακτος ; figs, Archiv v. p. 381, No. 56 .5 (late i/A.D.) στάμνον ἐν ᾧ ἦσαν ἑκατὸν πε [ν ]τήκοντα ἰσχάδες , a jar in which were a hundred and fifty dried figs ; and anything cooked, P Lond 964 .11 (ii/iii A.D.) (= III. p. 212) ἀγόρασον στάμνον ἑψέματος .
It may be noted that the Doric ὁ στάμνος (cf. Exo_16:33 ) is more common in the papyri than the Attic ἡ στάμνος . For the dim. σταμνίον , see PSI IV. 413 .19 (iii/B.C.) ταρίχου τὸ σταμνίον σύνταξ [ο ]ν ἡμῖν ἐμπλῆσαι , P Cairo Zen I. 59012 .58 (B.C. 259) τυροῦ ] Χίου̣ σ̣τ̣[αμ ]νίον ᾱ .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
στάμνος στάμνος, ὁ, [Etym: στῆναι] "an earthen jar for racking off wine", Ar. : cf. ἀμφορεύς.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
στάρνος, -ου (ὁ and), ἡ
[in LXX: Exo.16:33 (צִנְצֶנֶת), 3Ki.12:24 14:3 (בַּקְבֻּק), Dan LXX Bel, 1:32 * ;]
prop., an earthen jar for racking off wine, hence, generally, a jar: Heb.9:4.†
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