Potsherd

POTSHERD

pot'-shurd (cheres):

A piece of earthenware (Job 2:8; Psalms 22:15; Isaiah 45:9). the Revised Version (British and American) renders the word in Proverbs 26:23, "an earthen vessel," and in Job 41:30 substitutes "sharp potsherds" for "sharp stones." Sirach 22:7 refers to the art of "gluing a potsherd (ostrakon) together."

See HARSITH; OSTRACA.


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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'POTSHERD'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.