κέραμος
keramos
Masculine noun · Probably from the base of κεράννυμι (G2767) (through the idea of mixing clay and water)
Probably from the base of G2767 (through the idea of mixing clay and water); earthenware, i.e. a tile (by analogy, a thin roof or awning):—tiling.
Outline
- clay, potter's earth
- anything made of clay, earthen ware
- a roofing tile
- the roof itself
- the phrase "through the roof", means through the door in the roof to which a ladder or stairway led up from the street (according to the Rabbis distinguish two ways of entering a house, "the way through the door" and "the way through the roof"