- Transliteration: Keramos

- Phonetic: ker'-am-os

- Definition:

1. clay, potter's earth

2. anything made of clay, earthen ware

3. a roofing tile

a. the roof itself

b. 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"

- Origin: probably from the base of G2767" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2767 (through the idea of mixing clay and water)

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

- Strong's: Probably from the base of G2767" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2767 (through the idea of mixing clay and water); earthenware that is a tile (by analogy a thin roof or awning): - tiling.