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che.re.s H2789

חֶ֫רֶשׂ (che.re.s) means “earthenware” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

חֶ֫רֶשׂ Hebrew · H2789 17 tagged occurrences in 16 verses

Pronunciation guide: kheh'-res Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H2789

חֶ֫רֶשׂ · che.re.s · earthenware

earthenware, clay pottery, shard, potsherd, earthen vessel

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

a collateral form mediating between H2775 (חֶרֶס) and H2791 (חֶרֶשׁ); a piece of pottery

KJV glosses: earth(-en), (pot-) sherd, [phrase] stone.

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How translators render H2789

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
in a clay 3
a clay 2
a piece of broken pottery 1
among many 1
an earthen vessel 1
any clay 1
clay 1
like a potsherd 1
not a shard 1
of clay 1
one clay pot 1
potsherds 1
the clay 1
to pieces 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
in an earthen 3
a potsherd 1
and every earthen 1
as earthen 1
but the earthen 1
earthen 1
him a potsherd 1
like a potsherd 1
of earth 1
of it a sherd 1
stones 1
the potsherd 1
the sherds 1
them in an earthen 1
with the potsherds 1

Verses containing H2789

Page 1 of 1. 16 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Leviticus 6:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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    Source alternate reference: 6.21

  2. Leviticus 11:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.

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  3. Leviticus 14:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot.

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  4. Leviticus 14:50 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and he shall slaughter one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.

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  5. Leviticus 15:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.

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  6. Numbers 5:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  7. Job 2:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

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  8. Job 41:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

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    Source alternate reference: 41.22

  9. Psalms 22:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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    Source alternate reference: 22.16

  10. Proverbs 26:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.

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  11. Isaiah 30:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  12. Isaiah 45:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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’?

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  13. Jeremiah 19:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  14. Jeremiah 32:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.

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  15. Lamentations 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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!

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  16. Ezekiel 23:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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Sources and text

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