chasaf · clay, potsherd

What it means

chasaf (חֲסַף) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “clay, potsherd”.

Clay, baked clay (Aramaic): the material of pottery.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Fired earth of the potter.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Daniel 2:33

  its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.

• Daniel 2:34

  You were looking until a stone was cut out, not by hands, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.

• Daniel 2:35

  Then were crushed all together the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, and they became like the chaff of the threshing floors of summer; and the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled all the earth.

• Daniel 2:41

  And as you saw the feet and the toes, partly potter’s clay and partly iron, the kingdom will be divided; and some of the firmness of iron will be in it, inasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with muddy clay.

• Daniel 2:42

  And the toes of the feet partly iron and partly clay, part of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will be brittle.

• Daniel 2:43

  And as you saw the iron mixed with muddy clay, they will mix themselves with the offspring of men, but they will not hold together, this one with that one, just as iron does not mix with clay.

• Daniel 2:45

  Inasmuch as you saw that from the mountain a stone was cut out, not by hands, and it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, a great Elah has made known to the king what will be after this. And the dream is certain, and its interpretation trustworthy.”

And 2 more times.