סִירçîyr
סִיר: pot
Pronunciation: seer · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5518
Meanings
1.
a. household utensil for boiling (2 Kings 4:38; 2 Kings 4:39; 2 Kings 4:40)
b. washing-pot (Psalms 60:10; Psalms 108:10)
2. pots, used in sanctuary (Ezekiel 27:3; Ezekiel 38:3; 1 Kings 7:40)
סִיר: thorn, hook
1. thorns (Isaiah 34:13; Hosea 2:8; Nahum 1:10)
2. hooks (Amos 4:2)
Where it appears
Appears 34 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 16:3 “If only the Lord had killed us back in Egypt,” they moaned. “There we sat around pots filled with meat and ate all the bread we wanted. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to starve us all to death.”
- Exodus 27:3 Make ash buckets, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans, all of bronze.
- Exodus 38:3 Then he made all the altar utensils of bronze—the ash buckets, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans.
- 1 Kings 7:45 the ash buckets, the shovels, and the bowls. Huram made all these things of burnished bronze for the Temple of the Lord, just as King Solomon had directed.
- 2 Kings 4:38 Elisha now returned to Gilgal, and there was a famine in the land. One day as the group of prophets was seated before him, he said to his servant, “Put a large pot on the fire, and make some stew for the rest of the group.”
- 2 Kings 4:39 One of the young men went out into the field to gather herbs and came back with a pocketful of wild gourds. He shredded them and put them into the pot without realizing they were poisonous.
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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).