Easton's Bible Dictionary
A "shred", i.e., anything severed, as a fragment of earthenware (
Job 2:8;
Proverbs 26:23;
Isaiah 45:9).
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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n.) A piece or fragment of a broken pot.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
POTSHERDpot'-shurd (cheres): A piece of earthenware (Job 2:8 Psalm 22:15 Isaiah 45:9). the Revised Version (British and American) renders the word in Proverbs 26:23, "an earthen vessel," and in Job 41:30 substitutes "sharp potsherds" for "sharp stones." Sirach 22:7 refers to the art of "gluing a potsherd (ostrakon) together."
See HARSITH; OSTRACA.
POTSHERD GATE
(Jeremiah 19:2).
See HARSITH.
Strong's Hebrew
2777. charsuth -- potsherd... 2776, 2777. charsuth. 2778 .
potsherd. Transliteration: charsuth Phonetic
Spelling: (khar-sooth') Short Definition:
potsherd. Word
... /hebrew/2777.htm - 6k 2789. cheres -- earthenware, earthen vessel, sherd, potsherd
... earthenware, earthen vessel, sherd, potsherd. Transliteration: cheres Phonetic Spelling:
(kheh'-res) Short Definition: earthenware. ... earthen, potsherd, stone. ...
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2635. chasaph -- clay, potsherd
... 2634, 2635. chasaph. 2636 . clay, potsherd. Transliteration: chasaph
Phonetic Spelling: (khas-af') Short Definition: clay. Word ...
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Library
The Prediction of the Events which Happened to Christ when He was ...
... My strength is become dry like a potsherd; and my tongue has cleaved to my throat'
"foretold what would come to pass; for the statement, My hope from the ...
/.../chapter cii the prediction of the.htm
Psalm XXII.
... 16. "My strength dried up as a potsherd" (ver.15). My strength dried up by My Passion;
not as hay, but a potsherd, which is made stronger by fire. ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm xxii.htm
Satan Considering the Saints
... and he who was rich and happy was poor and wretched, filled with disease from head
to foot, and fain to scrape himself with a miserable potsherd, to gain a ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 11 1865/satan considering the saints.htm
The Beginning, Increase, and End of the Divine Life
... His beginning was small: he was brought down to poverty, to the potsherd and to
the dunghill; he had many graves, but no children; he had had many losses, he ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/the beginning increase and end.htm
"Am Ia Sea, or a Whale?"
... These moans came from him when his skin was broken and had become loathsome and
he sat upon a dunghill and scraped himself with a potsherd. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 37 1891/am i a sea or.htm
Indwelling Sin
... and upright: he had said, "My righteousness I will hold fast, and I will not let
it go;" and notwithstanding he did scrape his body with a potsherd, and his ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/indwelling sin.htm
Feasting on the Sacrifice
... of crucifixion, so as that the whole reads liker history than prophecy, in 'All
My bones are out of joint; My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and My ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/feasting on the sacrifice.htm
Lo! the Evil one Reproached Death
... rejoice."19. The fire will come that shall strip off thee thy very skin:
as by the potsherd thou didst strip the skin of Job."20. D ...
/.../ephraim/hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/hymn lv lo the evil.htm
Predictions of Christ in Ps. xxii.
... My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue has cleaved to my
throat; and Thou hast brought me into the dust of death. ...
/.../chapter xcviii predictions of christ in.htm
The Eternity and Unchangeableness of God.
... is more majesty in this simple style than in all others; but a "natural man" cannot
behold it, for it is "spiritually discerned." "Let the potsherd," saith he ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/lecture viii the eternity and.htm
Thesaurus
Potsherd (6 Occurrences)... Noah Webster's Dictionary. (n.) A piece or fragment of a broken pot. Int. Standard
Bible Encyclopedia.
POTSHERD. pot
... OSTRACA.
POTSHERD GATE.
.../p/potsherd.htm - 9kOstraca
... os'-tra-ka: The word ostracon ("potsherd," Hebrew cheres) occurs in Job 2:8
(Septuagint), kai elaben ostrakon, "and he took him a potsherd." Earthen vessels ...
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Potsherds (2 Occurrences)
... (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV). Isaiah 45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his
Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. ...
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Sherd (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) A fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in
potsherd. See Shard. Int. ... shurd. See POTSHERD. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Pots (30 Occurrences)
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Jaws (12 Occurrences)
... (WEB ASV DBY). Psalms 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue
cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. ...
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Layest (10 Occurrences)
... (DBY). Psalms 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth
to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death. (See JPS). ...
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Fashioneth (5 Occurrences)
... (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS). Isaiah 45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!
Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. ...
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Fashioned (22 Occurrences)
... nothing? (WEB JPS ASV NAS). Isaiah 45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his
Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall ...
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Framer (7 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 45:9 Wo 'to' him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds
of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, 'What dost thou?' And thy work ...
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