ξέστης

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)

Verses

First used in Mark 7:4

Words derived from it

• G3586ξύλον xýlontimber (as fuel or material); by implication, a stick, club or tree or other wooden article or substance
• G3584ξηρός xērósarid; by implication, shrunken, earth (as opposed to water)