Pot
קֶ֫סֶתStrong’s H7083qeset (qe-set)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qeset is the Hebrew word usually translated “writing-case of” and “writing-case”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.”
Meaning
- Pot (for ink), inkhorn, inkwell
How it's translated
- and writing-case of 1
- writing-case of 1
- the writing-case 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 9:3And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer’s inkhorn by his side;
- Ezekiel 9:11And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.
Hebrew dictionary
קֶ֫סֶת qeset · pot
pot (for ink), inkhorn, inkwell
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.