Cheres חֶ֫רֶשׂ

Cheres (Hebrew חֶ֫רֶשׂ, Strong's H2789) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “earthenware”. It occurs 17 times in 16 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Cheres, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Leviticus

• Leviticus 6:28
  But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water.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.
• Leviticus 11:33
  And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.
• Leviticus 14:5
  And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:Then the priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot.
• Leviticus 14:50
  And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:and he shall slaughter one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.
• Leviticus 15:12
  And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.

Numbers

• Numbers 5:17
  And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: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.

Job

• Job 2:8
  And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
• Job 41:30
  Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

Psalms

• Psalm 22:15
  My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.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.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 26:23
  Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 30:14
  And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.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.”
• Isaiah 45:9
  Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?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’?

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 19:1
  Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;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,
• Jeremiah 32:14
  Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.“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.

Lamentations

• Lamentations 4:2
  The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!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!

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 23:34
  Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.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.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).