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
“Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.”
“And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.”
“His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.”
“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.”
“If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.”
“and he shall slaughter one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.”
“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.”
“Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.”
“Then the priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot.”
“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).