חֲסַףchăçaph
clay, potsherd (Daniel 2:41; Daniel 2:33; Daniel 2:42; Daniel 2:43; Daniel 2:34)
Pronunciation: khas-af' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2635
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- Daniel 2:33 its legs were iron, and its feet were a combination of iron and baked clay.
- Daniel 2:34 As you watched, a rock was cut from a mountain, but not by human hands. It struck the feet of iron and clay, smashing them to bits.
- Daniel 2:35 The whole statue was crushed into small pieces of iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold. Then the wind blew them away without a trace, like chaff on a threshing floor. But the rock that knocked the statue down became a great mountain that covered the whole earth.
- Daniel 2:41 The feet and toes you saw were a combination of iron and baked clay, showing that this kingdom will be divided. Like iron mixed with clay, it will have some of the strength of iron.
- Daniel 2:42 But while some parts of it will be as strong as iron, other parts will be as weak as clay.
- Daniel 2:43 This mixture of iron and clay also shows that these kingdoms will try to strengthen themselves by forming alliances with each other through intermarriage. But they will not hold together, just as iron and clay do not mix.
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).