G2766 – keramos – κέραμος – tiling
- Strong’s ID:
- G2766
- Greek Word:
- κέραμος
- Transliteration:
- keramos
- Pronunciation:
- ker’-am-os
- Part of Speech:
- noun masculine
- Usage Count:
- 1
- Search:
- Find “keramos” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
probably from the base of G2767 (through the idea of mixing clay and water); earthenware, i.e. a tile (by analogy, a thin roof or awning):—tiling.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) clay, potter’s earth
2) anything made of clay, earthen ware
3) a roofing tile
3a) the roof itself
3b) 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”
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.