דּוּדdûwd
pot, jar
Pronunciation: dood · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1731
Meanings
a. pot, kettle, or cooking (בִּשֵּׁל) (1 Samuel 2:14; 2 Chronicles 35:13; Job 41:12)
b. basket, receptacle for carrying (2 Kings 10:7; Jeremiah 24:2; Jeremiah 24:1)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- 1 Samuel 2:14 the servant would stick the fork into the pot and demand that whatever it brought up be given to Eli’s sons. All the Israelites who came to worship at Shiloh were treated this way.
- 2 Kings 10:7 When the letter arrived, the leaders killed all seventy of the king’s sons. They placed their heads in baskets and presented them to Jehu at Jezreel.
- 2 Chronicles 35:13 Then they roasted the Passover lambs as prescribed; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, kettles, and pans, and brought them out quickly so the people could eat them.
- Job 41:20 Smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.
- Psalms 81:6 “Now I will take the load from your shoulders; I will free your hands from their heavy tasks.
- Jeremiah 24:1 After King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon exiled Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, to Babylon along with the officials of Judah and all the craftsmen and artisans, the Lord gave me this vision. I saw two baskets of figs placed in front of the Lord’s Temple in Jerusalem.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).