סִיר
sir
pot
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "sir" (Strong's number H5518A) has a straightforward meaning: it refers to a type of container, specifically a pot. This is evident from its short definition as a "pot" and its classification under the semantic domain of "Construction & Crafts", indicating its connection to material objects and their creation. The word "sir" occurs 29 times in the Bible, demonstrating its significance and frequency of use within the text. Its range of usage may include various situations where a pot is mentioned, such as cooking, storing, or possessing vessels. The significance of this word extends beyond just its literal meaning, as it likely plays a role in biblical narratives and theological themes related to everyday life, such as hospitality, food preparation, and material possessions. The repetition of "sir" throughout the text may also imply its importance in the cultural and social context of the ancient Israelites. The word may be used to describe specific pots or vessels associated with particular individuals, tribes, or rituals, adding depth to our understanding of the biblical world and its inhabitants.
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Occurrences in Scripture
29 total occurrences across the text
They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance. They boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people.
Job 41:31He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
Psalms 60:8Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my sandal on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia.”
Psalms 108:9Moab is my wash pot. I will toss my sandal on Edom. I will shout over Philistia.”
Ecclesiastes 7:6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
Jeremiah 1:13Yahweh’s word came to me the second time, saying, “What do you see?” I said, “I see a boiling cauldron; and it is tipping away from the north.”
Jeremiah 52:18They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.
Jeremiah 52:19The captain of the guard took away the cups, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lamp stands, the spoons, and the bowls; that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.
Ezekiel 11:3who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’
Ezekiel 11:7“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Your slain whom you have laid in the middle of it, they are the meat, and this is the cauldron; but you will be brought out of the middle of it.
Ezekiel 11:11This will not be your cauldron, neither will you be the meat in the middle of it. I will judge you in the border of Israel.
Ezekiel 24:3Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says, “Put the cauldron on the fire. Put it on, and also pour water into it.
Ezekiel 24:6“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the bloody city, to the cauldron whose rust is in it, and whose rust hasn’t gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot is fallen on it.
Micah 3:3who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
Zechariah 14:20In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO YAHWEH”; and the pots in Yahweh’s house will be like the bowls before the altar.
Zechariah 14:21Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.
Exodus 16:3and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
Exodus 27:3You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze.
Exodus 38:3He made all the vessels of the altar: the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of bronze.
1 Kings 7:45the pots; the shovels; and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in Yahweh’s house, were of burnished bronze.
2 Kings 4:38Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”
2 Kings 4:39One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered a lap full of wild gourds from it, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew; for they didn’t recognize them.
2 Kings 4:40So they poured out for the men to eat. As they were eating some of the stew, they cried out, and said, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.
2 Kings 4:41But he said, “Then bring meal.” He threw it into the pot; and he said, “Serve it to the people, that they may eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
2 Kings 4:41But he said, “Then bring meal.” He threw it into the pot; and he said, “Serve it to the people, that they may eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
2 Kings 25:14They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.
2 Chronicles 4:11Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Huram finished doing the work that he did for king Solomon in God’s house:
2 Chronicles 4:16Huram his father also made the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all its vessels for king Solomon, for Yahweh’s house, of bright bronze.