Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2789
חֶרֶשׂ
chereskheh'-res
earthenware
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2789is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2789
a piece of pottery
The King James renders it: earth(-en), (pot-) sherd, [phrase] stone.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
cheres is rendered "earthenware". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Five of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 6:28The 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.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
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 6:28חֶ֛רֶשׂ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's seventeen uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- earthenware10
- a potsherd3
- fragments its1
- like the earthenware1
- potsherd1
- potsherds of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- חָ֑רֶשׂ5
- חֶ֔רֶשׂ4
- חֶ֖רֶשׂ3
- חֶ֛רֶשׂ2
- חַרְשֵׂ֣י1
- חֲרָשֶׂ֛יהָ1
- כַּחֶ֨רֶשׂ׀1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular14HNcmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3fs
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Leviticus
five uses
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.
- חֶ֛רֶשׂcheresnoun · masculine singulartagged: earthenware
If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.
- חֶ֔רֶשׂcheresnoun · masculine singulartagged: earthenware
Then the priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot.
- חֶ֖רֶשׂcheresnoun · masculine singulartagged: earthenware
and he shall slaughter one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.
- חֶ֖רֶשׂcheresnoun · masculine singulartagged: earthenware
Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.
- חֶ֛רֶשׂcheresnoun · masculine singulartagged: earthenware
Numbers
one use
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.
- חָ֑רֶשׂcharesnoun · masculine singulartagged: earthenware
Job
two uses
Psalms
one use
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.
- כַּחֶ֨רֶשׂ׀kacherespreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the earthenware
Proverbs
one use
Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.
- חָ֑רֶשׂcharesnoun · masculine singulartagged: earthenware
Isaiah
three uses
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.”
- חֶ֔רֶשׂcheresnoun · masculine singulartagged: a potsherd
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’?
- חֶ֖רֶשׂcheresnoun · masculine singulartagged: a potsherd
- חַרְשֵׂ֣יcharseinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: potsherds of
Jeremiah
two uses
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,
- חָ֑רֶשׂcharesnoun · masculine singulartagged: earthenware
“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.
- חָ֑רֶשׂcharesnoun · masculine singulartagged: earthenware
Lamentations
one use
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!
- חֶ֔רֶשׂcheresnoun · masculine singulartagged: earthenware
Ezekiel
one use
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.
- חֲרָשֶׂ֛יהָcharaseihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: fragments its
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.