cheres · earthenware

What it means

cheres (חֶרֶשׂ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “earthenware”.

Baked clay, earthenware; a piece 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. A baked pot, or a fragment of one.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• earthen ×5
• potsherd ×4
• clay ×3
• earthenware ×2
• among the potsherds ×1
• shard ×1
• shards ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×5
• Numbers×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Leviticus 6:28

  And the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured and rinsed in water.

• Leviticus 11:33

  And any earthen vessel into which any of them falls, whatever is in it will be unclean, and it you shall break.

• Leviticus 14:5

  The priest shall command that they slaughter the one bird in an earthen vessel over living water.

• Leviticus 14:50

  He shall slaughter the one bird in an earthen vessel over living water.

• Leviticus 15:12

  And a vessel of clay that the man with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

• Numbers 5:17

  And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and from the dust that is on the floor of the dwelling the priest shall take and put it into the water.

• Job 2:8

  He took a potsherd for himself to scrape himself with it, and he was sitting in the midst of the ashes.

• Job 41:30

  Under it are points of potsherd; it spreads a threshing sledge on the mud.

• Psalms 22:15

  My strength has dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my palate; and in the dust of death you lay me.

• Proverbs 26:23

  Silver of dross overlaid on earthenware, are burning lips and an evil heart.

• Isaiah 30:14

  And he will break it as one breaks a potters’ jar, crushed without sparing, and there will not be found among its fragments a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to scoop water from the pool.”

• Isaiah 45:9

  Woe to him who contends with his Former, a potsherd among the potsherds of the ground! Will the clay say to the one who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’?

• Jeremiah 19:1

  Thus says YHWH: “Go and buy a potter's earthenware jug, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests,

• Jeremiah 32:14

  ‘Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of purchase, the sealed one, and this open deed, and put them in a vessel of clay, so that they may last many days.

• Lamentations 4:2

  The sons of Zion, the precious ones, who were valued in refined gold, how they are reckoned as jars of clay, the work of the hands of a potter!

• Ezekiel 23:34

  And you will drink it and drain it, and its shards you will gnaw, and your breasts you will tear, for I have spoken, declares Adonai YHWH.

And 1 more times.