STRONGS G4713:
στάμνος,
σταμνου (
ὁ)
ἡ (from
ἵστημι (cf.
Curtius, § 216)), among the Greeks
an earthen jar, into which wine was drawn off for keeping (a process called
κατασταμνίζειν), but also used for other purposes. The
Sept. employ it in
Exodus 16:33 as the rendering of the Hebrew
צִנְצֶנֶת, that little jar (or
pot) in which the manna was kept, laid up in the ark of the covenant; hence, in
Hebrews 9:4, and
Philo de congr. erud. grat. § 18. Cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 400; (
Winer's Grammar, 23).
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