Pottery
the art of, was early practised among all nations. Various materials See m to have been employed by the potter. Earthenware is mentioned in connection with the history of Melchizedek (Gen. 14:18), of Abraham (18:4-8), of Rebekah (27:14), of Rachel (29:2, 3, 8, 10). The potter’s wheel is mentioned by Jeremiah (18:3). See also 1 Chr. 4:23; Ps. 2:9; Isa. 45:9; 64:8; Jer. 19:1; Lam. 4:2; Zech. 11:13; Rom. 9:21.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Pottery
Early known in Egypt. Israel in bondservice there wrought at it (Psa 81:6, so the Hebrew in 1Sa 2:14); but translated for “pots” the harden baskets for carrying clay, bricks, etc., such as are depicted in the sepulchral vaults at Thebes (Exo 5:6-12; 2Ch 16:6). The potter trod the clay into a paste (Isa 41:25), then put it on a wheel, by which he sat and shaped it. The wheel or horizontal lathe was a wooden disc, placed on another larger one, and turned by hand or worked by a treadle (Jer 18:3); on the upper he molded the clay into shape (Isa 45:9); the vessel was then smoothed, glazed, and burnt. Tiles with painting and writing on them were common (Eze 4:1). There was a royal establishment of potters at Jerusalem under the sons of Shelab (1Ch 4:25), carrying on the trade for the king’s revenue. The pottery found in Palestine is divisible into Phoenician, Graeco-Phoenician, Roman, Christian, and Arabic; on handles of jars occur inscriptions: “to king Zepha …. king Shat” and Melek (Palestine Exploration, Our Work in Palestine).
Emblem of man’s brittle frailty, and of God’s potter-like power to shape our ends as He pleases (Psa 2:9; Isa 29:16; Isa 30:14; Jer 19:11; Lam 4:2). As Isa 40:3 and Mal 3:1 are thrown together in Mar 1:2-3; also Isa 62:11 and Zec 9:9 in Mat 21:4-5; and Isa 8:14; Isa 28:16 in Rom 9:33; so Jer 18:3-6; Jer 18:19, and Zec 11:12-13 in Mat 27:9. Matthew presumes his reader’s full knowledge of Scripture, and merges the two human sacred writers, Jeremiah and Zechariah, in the one voice of the Holy Spirit speaking by them. In Matthew and Zechariah alike, the Lord’s representative, Israel’s Shepherd, has a paltry price set upon Him by the people; the transaction is done deliberately by men connected with the house of Jehovah; the money is given to the potter, marking the perpetrators’ baseness, guilt, and doom, and the hand of the Lord overrules it all, the Jewish rulers while following their own aims unconsciously fulfilling Jehovah’s “appointment.”
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Pottery
Clay prepared for, by treading
Isa 41:25
Vessels made of
Jer 18:3-4
Place for manufacture of, outside the wall of Jerusalem, bought as a burial ground for the poor
Mat 27:7-10
Figurative:
– General references
Isa 64:8; Rom 9:21
– Of weakness, in the idol in Nebuchadnezzar’s vision
Dan 2:41
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Pottery
Pottery. The art of pottery is one of the most common and most ancient of all manufactures. It is abundantly evident, both that the Hebrews used earthenware vessels in the wilderness, and that the potter’s trade was, afterward, carried on in Palestine. They had themselves been concerned in the potter’s trade in Egypt, Psa 81:6, and the wall-paintings minutely illustrate the Egyptian process.
The clay, when dug, was trodden by men’s feet so as to form a paste, Isa 41:25; Wis 15:7; then, placed, by the potter, on the wheel beside which he sat, and shaped by him, with his hands. How early the wheel came into use in Palestine is not known, but it seems likely that it was adopted from Egypt. Isa 45:9; Jer 15:3.
The vessel was then, smoothed and coated with a glaze, and finally, burnt in a furnace. There was at Jerusalem, a royal establishment of potters, 1Ch 4:23, from whose employment, and from the fragments cast away in the process, the Potter’s Field, perhaps, received its name. Isa 30:11.