חֶרֶשׂcheres/kheh'-res/
HebrewH278917 occurrences (KJV)
a piece of pottery
KJV renders it: earth(-en), (pot-) sherd, [phrase] stone.
Where it appears(showing the first 16 of 17)
- Lev 6:28But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.
- Lev 11:33Every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.
- Lev 14:5The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
- Lev 14:50He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
- Lev 15:12“‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
- Num 5:17and 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.
- Job 2:8He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
- Job 41:30His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
- Ps 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
- Prov 26:23Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
- Isa 30:14He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”
- Isa 45:9Woe to him who strives with his Maker — a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’
- Jer 19:1Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
- Jer 32:14Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days.’
- Lam 4:2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
- Ezek 23:34You will even drink it and drain it out. You will gnaw the broken pieces of it, and will tear your breasts; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.