Bible word study

Xestes (Strong’s G3582): Meaning in the Bible

Xestes (ξέστης) is the Greek word numbered G3582 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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). In the King James Bible it is translated pot..

• Original wordξέστης
• Transliterationxéstēs
• Pronunciationxes'-tace
• Strong’s numberG3582
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. as if from (properly, to smooth;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Xestes appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Xestes (G3582) stands behind 2 English renderings in 2 verses across 1 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Mark (2).

How the King James Bible renders Xestes, by count

• of pots1 of 2 (50 percent)
• pots1 of 2 (50 percent)

Three places to read Xestes

• Mark 7:4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
• Mark 7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Xestes in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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