Earthenware
חֶ֫רֶשׂStrong’s H2789cheres (che-re-s)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Cheres is the Hebrew word usually translated “earthenware”, “potsherd” and “like earthenware”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water.”
Meaning
- Earthenware, clay pottery, shard, potsherd, earthen vessel
How it's translated
- earthenware 10
- a potsherd 3
- potsherd 1
- like earthenware 1
- potsherds of 1
- fragments its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 5
- Job 2
- Isaiah 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Numbers 1
- Psalms 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 11:33And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.
- Leviticus 14:5And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
- Leviticus 14:50And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
- Leviticus 15:12And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
- Numbers 5:17And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
- Job 2:8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Hebrew dictionary
חֶ֫רֶשׂ cheres · earthenware
earthenware, clay pottery, shard, potsherd, earthen vessel
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “potsherd” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
POT'SHERD, noun
A piece or fragment of a broken pot.
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.