ΞΕΣΤΑΙΣ, ξεσταις
XESTAIS, xestais
Sounds Like: XES-tahys
Translations: (to) sextarii, (to) pots, (to) pitchers
From the root: ΞΕΣΤΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a Roman liquid measure, equivalent to about a pint, or to a vessel of that capacity, such as a pot or pitcher. It is used here in the dative plural, indicating the indirect object or location.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3580 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 15 — 9:324
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΞΕΣΤΗΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΞΕΣΤΗ — sextarius, a sextarius, measure, a measure
- ΞΕΣΤΗΣ — pitcher, a pitcher, jar, a jar, pot, a pot
- ΞΕΣΤΟΥ — of a sextarius, of a measure, of a pot, of a pitcher
- ΞΕΣΤΟΥΣ — pots, pitchers, sextarii
- ΞΕΣΤΩ — sextarius, a sextarius, a measure, a polished stone, a polished vessel
- ΞΕΣΤΩΝ — of measures, of pots, of pitchers, of jars
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