“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)”
Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
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)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
a sextarius, a Roman measure, containing about one pint English; in NT used for a small vessel, cup, pot, Mk. 7:4*
Translated in KJV as
Etymology
as if from (properly, to smooth;
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