סִיר sir

Hebrew word for “pot” · Strong’s H5518 · used 34 times in 32 verses

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Meaning

1) pot; 1a) pot (household utensil); 1b) pot (of temple)

Senses in the lexicon

• pot (29)
• thorn (5)

How it is translated

Glosses given for sir in context, with how often each is used:

• pot 17
• pots 11
• thorns 4
• like pot 1
• hooks 1

Where it is used

Also in 3 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

2 Kings 4 (4), Ezekiel 11 (3), 2 Chronicles 4 (2), Jeremiah 52 (2), Ezekiel 24 (2), Zechariah 14 (2), Exodus 16 (1), Exodus 27 (1), Exodus 38 (1), 1 Kings 7 (1)

Forms

• סיר 7
• הסיר 6
• הסירות 5
• בסיר 3
• הסירת 2
• בסירות 2
• סירים 2
• סירתיו 1
• כסיר 1
• סירתיכם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with sir more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• יָע ya “shovel” 7
• מִזְרָק mizraq “bowl” 7
• נְחֹשֶׁת nechoshet “bronze” 6
• כְּלִי keli “article/utensil” 6
• נָזִיד nazid “stew” 3
• מִזְלָגָה mizlagah “fork” 3
• בָּשָׂר basar “flesh” 5
• מַחְתָּה machtah “censer” 3
• בָּשַׁל bashal “to boil” 3
• רַחַץ rachats “washing” 2
• יָצַק yatsaq “to pour” 3
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 5

Key verses

The verses using sir that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 16:3 — And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we…
• Exodus 27:3 — And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt…
• 2 Kings 4:38 — And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on…
• Psalms 58:9 — Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
• Psalms 60:8 — Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
• Isaiah 34:13 — And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
• Jeremiah 52:18 — The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
• Ezekiel 24:3 — And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:
• Ezekiel 24:6 — Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece;…
• Nahum 1:10 — For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
• Zechariah 14:20 — In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
• Zechariah 14:21 — Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein:…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.