סִיר

sir · pot; thorn

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5518 · appears 34 times in the Bible

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What it means

sir (סִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pot; thorn”.

Pot. In other passages, thorn, or hook.

How to say it

sir

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

A large vessel of bronze or clay in which food was cooked over the fire.
Thorns thrown on the fire under the pot, or hooks for dragging someone away.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

pot ×17
pots ×12
thorns ×3
brambles ×1
hooks ×1

Where it appears

Exodus 16:3
The sons of Israel said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of YHWH in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full! But you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
Exodus 27:3
You shall make its pots for removing its ashes, and its shovels, its bowls, its forks, and its firepans; all its utensils you shall make of bronze.
Exodus 38:3
And he made all the utensils of the altar, the pots and the shovels and the bowls, the forks and the firepans; all its utensils he made of bronze.
1 Kings 7:45
and the pots, and the shovels, and the bowls. And all these utensils that Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of YHWH were of burnished bronze.
2 Kings 4:38
Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was the famine in the land. The sons of the prophets were sitting before him, and he said to his young man, “Put on the large pot and cook stew for the sons of the prophets.”
2 Kings 4:39
One went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine and gathered from it wild gourds, his garment full, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, for they did not know what they were.
2 Kings 4:40
They poured out some for the men to eat. And it happened, as they were eating from the stew, that they cried out and said, “Death is in the pot, man of Elohim!” And they could not eat it.
2 Kings 4:41
He said, “Then get flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour out some for the people, and let them eat.” And there was no harmful thing in the pot.
2 Kings 25:14
The pots, the shovels, the tongs, the spoons, and all the utensils of bronze with which they ministered, they took.
2 Chronicles 4:11
Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the bowls. And Huram finished doing the work that he did for King Solomon in the house of Elohim:
2 Chronicles 4:16
and the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all their utensils Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of YHWH, of polished bronze.
2 Chronicles 35:13
They cooked the Passover over the fire according to the rule, and the holy things they cooked in pots, in caldrons, and in pans, and brought them quickly to all the sons of the people.
Job 41:31
It makes boil like a pot the depths; the sea it makes like a pot of ointment.
Psalms 58:9
Before your pots feel the bramble, whether green or burning, he will sweep it away in a storm.
Psalms 60:8
Moab is the pot I wash in; upon Edom I will throw my sandal; because of me, Philistia, shout aloud.”
Psalms 108:9
Moab is the pot I wash in; upon Edom I will throw my sandal; over Philistia I will shout aloud.”
Ecclesiastes 7:6
For like the sound of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the senseless; and this too is vapor.
Isaiah 34:13
And brambles will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be an abode of jackals, an enclosure for ostriches.
Jeremiah 1:13
And the word of YHWH came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “A pot boiling I see, and its face is from the north.”
Jeremiah 52:18
The pots, the shovels, the tongs, the bowls, the spoons, and all the utensils of bronze with which they ministered, they took.
Jeremiah 52:19
The cups, the firepans, the bowls, the pots, the lampstands, the spoons, and the libation bowls, what was gold, in gold, and what was silver, in silver, the chief of the guard took.
Ezekiel 11:3
who say, ‘The building of houses is not near; it is the pot, and we are the meat.’
Ezekiel 11:7
Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and it is the pot; but you I will bring out from its midst.
Ezekiel 11:11
It will not be for you a pot, nor will you be in its midst meat; at the border of Israel I will judge you.
Ezekiel 24:3
And speak a proverb to the rebellious house, and say to them: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Set on the pot, set it on, and also pour water into it.
Ezekiel 24:6
Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Woe to the city of bloodshed, a pot whose rust is in it, and its rust has not gone out of it! By its pieces, by its pieces take it out; no lot has fallen on it.
Hosea 2:6
Therefore, look, I am hedging up your way with thorns, and I will build her wall, and she will not find her paths.
Amos 4:2
Adonai YHWH has sworn by his holiness that, look, days are coming upon you when they will carry you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.
Micah 3:3
and who eat the flesh of my people, and their skin from off them they strip, and their bones they break, and they chop them up as in the pot, and like meat in the midst of the cauldron.”
Nahum 1:10
For they are like tangled thorns and like drunkards with their drink; they will be consumed like stubble fully dry.
Zechariah 14:20
On that day there will be on the bells of the horses, ‘Holiness to YHWH’; and the pots in the house of YHWH will be like the bowls before the altar.
Zechariah 14:21
And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holiness to YHWH Tsevaot; and all who sacrifice will come and take from them and cook in them; and there will no longer be a merchant in the house of YHWH Tsevaot on that day.

And 2 more times.