H2789 - חֶרֶשׂ (cheres)

H2789 חֶרֶשׂ (cheres) kheh'-res

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

earthenware

Strong's Definition

a piece of pottery

Derivation: a collateral form mediating between H2775 (חֶרֶס) and H2791 (חֶרֶשׁ);

KJV Usage: earth(-en), (pot-) sherd, [phrase] stone.

TWOT Reference: 759a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) earthenware, clay pottery, shard, potsherd, earthen vessel

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G2246 G3691 G3749

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

earthenware, clay pottery, shard, potsherd, earthen vessel

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חֶרֶשׂ chereś BDB Definition: 1) earthenware, clay pottery, shard, potsherd, earthen vessel Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: a collateral form mediating between H2775 and H2791 Same Word by TWOT Number: 759a Total KJV Occurrences: 17

Bible Occurrences (16)

6:28 11:33 14:5 14:50 15:12

5:17

2:8 41:30

22:15

26:23

30:14 45:9

19:1 32:14

4:2

23:34

Leviticus 6:28

The clay pot in which [the sin offering] is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze pot, [the pot] must be scoured and rinsed with water.

Leviticus 11:33

If any of them falls into... a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break [the pot].

Leviticus 14:5

Then the priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot.

Leviticus 14:50

and he shall slaughter one of the birds over fresh water in a clay... pot.

Leviticus 15:12

Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.

Numbers 5:17

Then [he] is to take [some] holy water in a clay jar and put some of the dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.

Job 2:8

And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

Job 41:30

His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge....