- Transliteration: Xestes

- Phonetic: xes'-tace

- Definition:

1. a sextarius

a. a vessel for measuring liquids, holding about a pint (.5 litre)

2. a wooden pitcher or ewer from which water or wine is poured, whether holding a sextarius or not

- Origin: as if from xeo (properly, to smooth, by implication [of friction] to boil or heat)

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

- Strong's: As if from ξέω xeō (which properly means to smooth; 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 that is about a pint) that is (specifically) a measure for liquids or solids (by analogy a pitcher): - pot.