חֶרֶשׂ cheres

Meaning

a piece of pottery

In the King James Version: earth(-en), (pot-) sherd, [phrase] stone.

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

Where it is used

• 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.
• 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.
• Proverbs 26:23 Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.
• Isaiah 30:14 It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”
• Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
• Jeremiah 19:1 This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,
• Jeremiah 32:14 “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time.
• Lamentations 4:2 How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
• Ezekiel 23:34 You will drink it and drain it; you will dash it to pieces, and tear your breasts. For I have spoken,’ declares the Lord GOD.