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H2789Hebrew

חֶרֶשׂ

Definition and meaning

cheres (kheh'-res) n-m. 1. a piece of pottery [a collateral form mediating between H2775 and H2791] KJV: earth(-en), (pot-)sherd, + stone. Root(s): H2775, H2791

Tagged KJV passages

16 matching verses - 17.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

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.

Matched English: earthen
Leviticus 11:33

And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.

Matched English: earthen
Leviticus 14:5

And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:

Matched English: earthen
Leviticus 14:50

And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:

Matched English: earthen
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.

Matched English: earth
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:

Matched English: earthen
Job 2:8

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

Matched English: potsherd
Job 41:30

Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

Matched English: stones
Psalms 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.

Matched English: potsherd
Proverbs 26:23

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

Matched English: potsherd
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.

Matched English: sherd
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?

Matched English: potsherd, potsherds
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;

Matched English: earthen
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.

Matched English: earthen
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!

Matched English: earthen
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.

Matched English: sherds