Strong's Hebrew · H2789

חֶרֶשׂ

cheres · kheh'-res

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

Definition

a piece of pottery

Derivation

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

Appears 17 times in Scripture

Proverbs 26:23

Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.

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.

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 14:50

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

Psalms 22:15

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.

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.

Leviticus 14:5

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

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.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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