Pot
סִירStrong’s H5518sir
Appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sir is the Hebrew word usually translated “pots”, “pot” and “pot of”. It appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament.
“In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.”
Meaning
- Potpot (household utensil) · pot (of temple)
- Thorn, hook, brierthorns · hooks
How it's translated
- the pots 8
- the pot 6
- pot of 4
- in the pot 3
- thorns 3
- a pot 3
- pots its 1
- in pots 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 5
- Ezekiel 5
- Exodus 3
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Psalms 3
- Jeremiah 3
15 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 14:21In contextYea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.
- Exodus 16:3And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
- Exodus 27:3And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
- Exodus 38:3And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.
- 1 Kings 7:45And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.
- 2 Kings 4:38And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
Hebrew dictionary
סִיר sir · pot
1) pot 1a) pot (household utensil) 1b) pot (of temple)
סִיר sir · thorn
1) thorn, hook, brier 1a) thorns 1b) hooks
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.