סִיר
sir
“pot”
Definition
a pot; also a thorn (as springing up rapidly); by implication, a hook
or (feminine) סִירָה; or סִרָה; (Jeremiah 52:18), from a primitive root meaning to boil up;
- pot 1a) pot (household utensil) 1b) pot (of temple)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
סִיר appears 27 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls.All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.
When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
For like the crackling of thorns under the pot,so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
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Again the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “What do you see?”“I see a boiling pot,” I replied, “and it is tilting toward us from the north.”
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