Pot
פָּרוּרStrong’s H6517parur (pa-rur)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Parur is the Hebrew word usually translated “pot”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.”
Meaning
- Pan, pot
How it's translated
- in the pot 2
- in pot 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
- Judges 1
- 1 Samuel 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 6:19And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.
- 1 Samuel 2:14And 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.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּרוּר parur · pot
pan, pot
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.