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# סִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5518

**pot** — used 29 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

pot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5518/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סִיר: n.m. pot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5518/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 1:13 et f. 2 K 4:38 pot (probably foreign wd. (Egyptian?), Arabic زِيرٌ a large water-jar Lane1276 is perhaps loan-wd.; on Gk. deriv. σιρός, σίρινος, v. LewyFremdw. 107);—ס׳ abs. 2 K 4:38 +, cstr. Ex 16:3 +; pl. סִירֹת 38:3, סִירוֹת 1 K 7:45 +; sf. סִירֹתָיו Ex 27:3, סִירֹתֵיכֶם ψ 58:10;—pot: household utensil for boiling 2 K 4:38, 39, 40, 41(×2), ס׳ הַבָּשָׂר Ex 16:3 (P), Zc 14:21; ס׳ נָפוּחָ Je 1:13 (cf. נפח; in vision), symbol. of Jerus. Ez 11:3, 7, 11; 24:3, 6; fig. also ψ 58:10 (cf. Che); in sim. Mi 3:3 Jb 41:23 Ec 7:6. ס׳ רַחְצִי ψ 60:10 my washing-pot, 108:10. pots used in sanctuary, Ex 27:3; 38:3 (both P), 1 K 7:40 (read סִירוֹת for MT כִּיֹּרוֹת, so Codd. of ℌ 𝔊 𝔙 Th Ke Klo Kmp Benz), v 45 = 2 Ch 4:11, 16, 2 K 25:14 = Je 52:18, also Je 52:19 2 Ch 35:13 Zc 14:20.—Here belongs prob. סִרָה in בּוֹר הַסִּרָה, v. p. 92 b.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: pot (12); pots (11); \[is\] the pot (2).

## In the verses

[Job 41:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.23/#tree)

יַרְתִּ֣יחַ כַּסִּ֣יר מְצוּלָ֑ה יָ֝֗ם יָשִׂ֥ים כַּמֶּרְקָחָֽה׃

*Word for word:* it.makes.boil like (the) pot \[the\].deep \[the\].sea it.makes like.(the) pot of.ointment

*JPS 1917:* He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a seething mixture.

[Psalms 58:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.10/#tree)

בְּטֶ֤רֶם יָבִ֣ינוּ סִּֽירֹתֵיכֶ֣ם אָטָ֑ד כְּמוֹ־חַ֥י כְּמוֹ־חָ֝ר֗וֹן יִשְׂעָרֶֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* before they.will.perceive pots your a.thorn.bush like alive like burning he will.sweep.it.away

*JPS 1917:* Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5518.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5518/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).