Pot
דּוּדStrong’s H1731dud
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dud is the Hebrew word usually translated “kettle”, “baskets” and “kettles”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.”
Meaning
- Pot, jar, basket, kettlepot, kettle · basket, jar
How it's translated
- in the kettle 1
- in baskets 1
- and in kettles 1
- like a pot 1
- from a basket 1
- baskets of 1
- the basket 1
- and the basket 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 10:7And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
- 2 Chronicles 35:13And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.
- Job 41:20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
- Psalms 81:6I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
- Jeremiah 24:1The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 24:2One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
Hebrew dictionary
דּוּד dud · pot
1) pot, jar, basket, kettle 1a) pot, kettle 1b) basket, jar
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pot” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
POT, noun
- A vessel more deep than broad, made of earth, or iron or other metal, used for several domestic purposes; as an iron pot for boiling meat or vegetables; a pot for holding liquors; a cup, as a pot of ale; an earthen pot for plants, called a flower pot etc.
- A sort of paper of small sized sheets.
All definitions and other forms of “pot”
POT, verb transitive
To preserve seasoned in pots; as potted fowl and fish.
- To inclose or cover in pots of earth.
- To put in casks for draining; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler and placing it in hogsheads with perforated heads, from which the molasses percolates through the spongy stalk of a plantain leaf.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.