G3582 ξέστης (xéstēs)

KJV renderings

pot

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)

Derivation

as if from (properly, to smooth;

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