Greek adjective · G3749
ὀστράκινος
ostrakinosos-tra'-kin-os
clay
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ostrákinos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3749is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3749
earthen-ware, i.e. clayey; by implication, frail
The King James renders it: of earth, earthen.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ostrakinos is rendered "clay". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in 2 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Corinthians 4:7Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
2 Corinthians 4:7ὀστρακίνοις
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's two uses is in 2 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- earthen2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ὀστράκινα1
- ὀστρακίνοις1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural1A-DPN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter plural1A-NPN
2 Corinthians
one use
Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
- ὀστρακίνοιςostrakinoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: earthen
2 Timothy
one use
A large house contains not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. Some indeed are for honorable use, but others are for common use.
- ὀστράκιναostrakinaadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: earthen
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.