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So I went downוָאֵרֵדto the houseבֵּיתof the potter,הַיּוֹצֵרand look,וְהִנֵּהheהוּאwas doingעֹשֶׂהa workמְלָאכָהon the wheel.עַל הָאָבְנָיִם
Jeremiah 18:3
Study it in the app“So I went down to the house of the potter, and look, he was doing a work on the wheel.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 18:3, word by word
- So I went downאֵרֵדered
go down
To go from a higher place to a lower one, like from the mountain to the valley.
Where else “ered” appears- to the houseבֵּיתbet
house
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bet” appears- of the potterיּוֹצֵרyotser
potter
The one who works clay and shapes it into pots with his hands.
Where else “yotser” appears- was doingעֹשֶׂהose
do
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “ose” appears- a workמְלָאכָהmelacha
work
The work one does or is assigned: building, serving, tending.
Where else “melacha” appears- on the wheelאָבְנָיִםavnayim
potter's wheel
The spinning stone disc a potter shapes jars on.
Where else “avnayim” appears
Translation note
“The wheel”: in Hebrew, “the two stones,” the potter's wheels.
The context
2“Get up and go down to the house of the potter, and there I will make you hear my words.”
3 · This verse (above)
4And the vessel that he was making of clay was ruined in the hand of the potter; and he went back and made it another vessel, as seemed right in the eyes of the potter to make.