ὀστράκινος
earthen
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G3749 appears in the Book of 2 Timothy — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 Timothy
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
οστρακινος — transliterated ostrákinos — is a Greek adjective carrying the sense “earthen.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in 2 Corinthians (50% of all occurrences). Its earliest occurrence is 2 Corinthians 4:7. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3749 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 50%
- 2 Timothy 1 verse 50%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Earth 1×, Earthen 1×
- American Standard Version: Earth 1×, Earthen 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Clay 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Clay 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3749 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3749 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3749 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3749 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- earthen, clay
Word origin
Origin: "from ostrakon ["oyster"] (a tile, i.e. terra cotta)"
From ὄστρακον ostrakon (oyster) (a tile that is terra cotta ); earthen ware that is clayey ; by implication frail : - of earth earthen.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3749 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὀστράκινα ostrákina | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Neuter | 2 Timothy 2:20 | 1 |
| ὀστρακίνοις ostrakínois | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Neuter | 2 Corinthians 4:7 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word οστρακινος appears 15 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 15 verses in 7 books.
- 15
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 15
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Leviticus 6:21 ὀστράκινος
- Numbers 5:17 ὀστράκινος
- Isaiah 30:14 ὀστράκινος
- Jeremiah 19:1 ὀστράκινος
- Lamentations 4:2 ὀστράκινος
- Ezekiel 4:9 ὀστράκινος
- Daniel 2:33 ὀστράκινος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3749) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Leviticus 6:21 ὀστράκινος It shall be made with oil in a baking pan. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 11:33 ὀστράκινος Every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.
- Leviticus 14:5 ὀστράκινος The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
- Leviticus 14:50 ὀστράκινος He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
- Leviticus 15:12 ὀστράκινος "'The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
- Numbers 5:17 ὀστράκινος and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.
- Isaiah 30:14 ὀστράκινος He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces of it a broken piece with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
- Jeremiah 19:1 ὀστράκινος Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
- Jeremiah 19:11 ὀστράκινος and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place to bury.
- Jeremiah 39:14 ὀστράκινος they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he lived among the people.
- Lamentations 4:2 ὀστράκινος The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
- Ezekiel 4:9 ὀστράκινος Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make you bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, shall you eat of it.
- Daniel 2:33 ὀστράκινος its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.
- Daniel 2:34 ὀστράκινος You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
- Daniel 2:42 ὀστράκινος As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3749) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
