Pot
a term applicable to so many sorts of vessels that it can scarcely be restricted to any one in particular. SEE BASIN; SEE CUP, etc. But from the places where the word is used we may collect the uses, and also in part the materials of the utensils implied. This vessel, so necessary in cooking and serving up food (Num 11:8; Jdg 6:19; 1Sa 2:14; 2Ki 4:38 sq.; 2Ch 35:13; Isa 65:4; Mic 3:3; Eze 11:3; Eze 24:3 sq.), derives its ordinary names from its use in boiling. It was commonly, among the Israelites, made of clay (Heb. , Gr. ; comp. Isa 29:16; Isa 45:9; Jer 18:4). But there were also brazen pots (Lev 8:28), especially in the sanctuary (1Ki 7:45; 2Ki 25:14). The trade of the potters, called (comp. Gesenius, Monumenta Phoen. p. 161) or (Jer 19:1), in Greek , was a separate pursuit, to whose mysteries allusions are often made (Jer 18:2 sq.; Sir 38:30; Sirach cf., 33 sq.). It was necessary first to work the clay with the feet, to make it plastic (Isa 41:25), and then to shape it with the hand (Jer 18:4; Jer 18:6; Sir 33:13; Sir 38:30) and the Oriental potter’s wheel ( Jer 18:3; see Gesenius, Thesaur. 1, 16). The vessels were glazed (Sir 38:31; Pro 26:23), and then burned in the oven (, Sirach , 1. c.). BAhr (Symbolik, 2, 293) and Sommer (Bibl. Abhandl. 1, 213) assume, indeed, that the Hebrews were ignorant of glazing, and explain the passages (Lev 6:21; Lev 11:33; Lev 15:12) which command the breaking of earthen vessels made unclean by this want of glazing. There are, indeed, no pots extant from Egyptian antiquity, but earthen figures show a glazing upon them; and it would be unreasonable to suppose that the Egyptians had failed to apply the art to their vessels. There is nothing inexplicable in the command to break the defiled vessels, inasmuch as they were of little value; and any of them might easily have lost part of its glazing, and so taken in some of the unclean substance; so that breaking was the safest method of disposing of them. Such a command would also produce more care in housekeeping to avoid uncleanness (comp. Descript. de l’Egypte, vol. 2, pl. 87 sq.; 5, pl. 75; Wilkinson , 1, 164). SEE POTTERY.
The following are the words so rendered in the English Bible:
1. , asuk (Sept. ), applied to holding oil (2Ki 4:2), probably was an earthen jar, deep and narrow, without handles, apparently like the Roman and Egyptian amphora, inserted in a stand of wood or stone (see Wilkinson, Anc. Egypt. 1, 47; Sandys, Trav, p. 150). SEE PITCHER.
2. , gabia (Sept. , Vulg. scyphaus, Jer 35:5; elsewhere bowl or cup), probably a bulging jar or bowl for liquids. SEE BOWL.
3. , dud (Sept. , Job 41:20; Psa 81:6; elsewhere basket, caldron, kettle), a vessel for culinary purposes, mentioned (1Sa 2:14) in conjunction with caldron and kettle, and so perhaps of smaller size. SEE KETTLE.
4. , cheres (potsherd, Job 2:8; Psa 22:15; Pro 26:23; Isa 45:9; elsewhere earthen, etc.), an earthen vessel for stewing or seething. Such a vessel was used for baking (Eze 4:9). It is contrasted in the same passage (Lev 6:28) with a metal vessel for the same purpose. SEE POTSHERD.
5. , keli (Sept. , Lev 6:28), a vessel of any kind (as usually elsewhere rendered). SEE VESSEL.
6. , kir (only once and in the dual, Lev 11:35, ranges for pots). SEE RANGE.
7. , sir (Sept. , Vulg. olla, the most usual and appropriate word, Exo 38:3; 2Ki 4:38-41; 2Ki 25:14; 2Ch 4:11; 2Ch 4:16; 2Ch 35:13; Job 41:31; Psa 58:9; Ecc 7:6; Jer 1:13; Eze 24:3; Eze 24:6; Mic 3:3; Zec 14:10; Zec 14:21). It is also used, combined with other words. to denote special uses, as with (Jer 1:13), a seething-pot; with . flesh (Exo 16:3);
, washing (Psa 60:8) , fining-pot (Pro 27:21). The blackness which such vessels would contract is alluded to in Joe 2:6. SEE CALDRON.
8. , parir (Sept. , Vulg. cacabus, Jdg 6:19; 1Sa 2:14; pan, Num 11:8), apparently an open flat vessel. SEE PAN.
9. , tsintse’neth (Sept. , Vulg. vas, Exo 16:33), a covered vessel for preserving things (comp. Heb 9:4). SEE MANNA.
10. , shephatta’yim (Sept. , Psa 68:13; hooks, Eze 40:43), opposite rows, as of sheepfolds.
11. (Mar 7:4; Mar 7:8), properly a sextarius or sixteenth part of the uiedius or bushel, =nearly one pint English; hence a cup generally. SEE MEASURE.
12. (Heb 9:4), an earthen jug or jar, = No. 9 above.
13. (Joh 2:6-7; Joh 4:28), a water-pot for any liquid. The water- pots of Cana appear to have been large amphorae, such as are in use at the present day in Syria (Fisher, Views, p. 56; Jolliffe, 1, 33). These were of stone or hard earthenware; but gold, silver, brass, or copper was also used for vessels both for domestic and also, with marked preference, for ritual use (1Ki 7:45; 1Ki 10:21; 2Ch 4:16; 2Ch 9:20; Mar 7:4; Michaelis, Laws of Moses, 217, 3, 335, ed. Smith). The water-pot of the Samaritan woman may have been a leathern bucket, such as Bedawin women use (Burckhardt, Notes, 1, 45). SEE WATER-POT.
POT, HOLY-WATER POT or HOLY-WATER VASE, and Sprinkle (=sprinkling brush), are implements used in Roman Catholic churches for sprinkling the altar and priest and people with the holy water on Sunday. Holy-water pots, such as is represented in the cut; are from five and a quarter to seven and a half inches in diameter.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Pot
POT.See House, 9.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Pot
pot: A term used as the translation of a number of Hebrew and Greek words whose fundamental meaning seems to describe them as intended for the most part to hold liquid or semi-liquid substances, but the pots of Exo 27:3 are intended to hold ashes. (1) , sr, the most common word for pot. It designates most frequently some household utensil, probably a pot or kettle for boiling. So 2Ki 4:38 ff; Exo 16:3; Jer 1:13 the King James Version; Eze 11:3, Eze 11:7, Eze 11:11, caldron; Eze 24:3, Eze 24:6 the King James Version; Mic 3:3; Zec 14:21, etc. It is also used as the name of some vessel of the sanctuary. So Exo 27:3, where the context shows it was intended to hold ashes; 1Ki 7:45; 2Ch 4:16; 2Ki 25:14. In Psa 60:8; Psa 108:9, it is a pot for washing. (2) , parur (Num 11:8; 1Sa 2:14), a vessel for boiling; in Jdg 6:19, a vessel for holding broth. (3) , dudh, rendered pot in Psa 81:6 in the King James Version, basket in the Revised Version (British and American); pot both the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) in Job 41:20. (4) , cinceneth (Exo 16:33), the jar in which the manna was placed. This jar or pot is mentioned in Heb 9:4 under the name , stamnos. (5) , ‘ason (2Ki 4:2), some kind of jar for holding oil. (6) , xestes (Mar 7:4), some kind of household utensil. Mention may also be made of the word rendered pot in Lev 6:28 the King James Version, where the Revised Version (British and American) renders more correctly by the general term vessel; for the King James Version pots (Psa 68:13) the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes sheepfolds. The root is uncertain. Those who render sheepfolds connect with the related root in Gen 49:14; Jdg 5:16. Others render fireplaces or ash heaps. See also range for pots, in Lev 11:35; pots, Jer 35:5 the King James Version, correctly bowls the Revised Version (British and American); refining pots in Pro 17:3; Pro 27:21. See also FOOD.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Pot
Pot. The term “pot” is applicable to so many sorts of vessels that it can scarcely be restricted to any one in particular.
1. (Hebrew, Asuc), 2Ki 4:2, the earthen jar, deep and narrow, without handles, probably like the Roman and Egyptian amphora, inserted in a stand of wood or stone.
2. (Hebrew, Cheres), an earthen vessel for stewing or seething. Lev 6:28; Eze 4:9.
3. (Hebrew, Dud), a vessel for culinary purposes, perhaps of smaller size. 1Sa 2:14. The “pots” set before the Rachabites, Jer 35:5, were probably bulging jars or bowls. The water-pots of Cana appear to have been large amphorae, such as are in use at the present day in Syria. These were of stone or hard earthenware. The water-pot of the Samaritan woman may have been a leathern bucket, such as Bedouin women use.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Pot
was a Sicilian corruption of the Latin liquid measure sextarius, about a pint; in Mar 7:4 (Mar 7:8 also in some mss.) it denotes “a pitcher,” of wood or stone.
primarily “an earthen jar” for racking off wine, hence, “any kind of jar,” occurs in Heb 9:4.
Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Pot
Job 41:20 (c) This animal, the whale, or some other great sea monster blowing the water from the head in some form, is likened to the boiling pot.
Psa 60:8 (b) The Lord used Moab for the cleansing of Israel when she needed punishment for her idolatry and sin. Moab was one of GOD’s pots in which He washed some of the filth of His people. GOD uses whomsoever He pleases for His purposes.
Jer 1:13 (b) This is a type of the great outbreak and overthrow of the armed might from the northern country in the time of GOD’s earthly judgments upon Jerusalem.
Eze 24:3 (b) Jerusalem is the pot in which GOD will destroy His people who have been so rebellious and wicked.
Joh 2:6 (c) These may be taken as a type of the six people in John who are outstanding in their transformed lives; Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman, the lame man in chapter 5, the blind man, Lazarus, and the nobleman’s son in chapter 4.
Joh 4:28 (c) This may be used as a type of earthly desires and preparations for earthly pleasures which are laid aside as of no further use when the soul trusts CHRIST and is satisfied with the water of life.