17 occurrences in 9 translations

'Pottery' in the Bible

The priest will then take holy water in a pottery jar, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into the water.

Verse ConceptsClayDust, Literal UseHoly VesselsWeed

brought beds, basins, and pottery items. They also brought wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

Verse ConceptsFlourBasinsBeansBeds

Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes.

Verse ConceptsAshesAshes Of Humiliation

“His underparts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery;He moves across and spreads out [grooves] like a threshing sledge on the mire (muddy river banks).

Verse ConceptsThreshingThings UnderMarshes

My strength is dried up like broken pottery; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth, and you have brought me down to the dust of death.

Verse ConceptsTongueFeverThings Stuck TogetherCreatures Returning To DustGod KillingGod Killing Individuals

Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker, "He didn't make me"? Or should the pottery say about the potter, "He doesn't understand"?

Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersClayPotterPotteryTurning Upside DownBeing Without UnderstandingMan's Relationship With His CreatorWeedatheismpot

Its collapse will be like the shatteringof a potter’s jar, crushed to pieces,so that not even a fragment of potterywill be found among its shattered remains—no fragment large enough to take fire from a hearthor scoop water from a cistern.”

Verse ConceptsPotterBreaking ContainersWeed

“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who quarrels with his Maker—A [worthless] piece of broken pottery among other broken pieces [equally worthless]!Shall the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you doing?’Or does the thing say, ‘He has no hands’?

Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersArguingClaySurrenderingPresumptionPotteryAuthority, Belonging To GodAnimositySuing GodWoe To The WickedMan's Relationship With His Creatorstriving

and thou hast gone forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, that is at the opening of the gate of the pottery, and hast proclaimed there the words that I speak unto thee,

Verse ConceptsNamed Gates

Wail and cry out in anguish, you rulers! Roll in the dust, you who shepherd flocks of people! The time for you to be slaughtered has come. You will lie scattered and fallen like broken pieces of fine pottery.

Verse ConceptsWeeping

As the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will be brittle.

Verse ConceptsToesIron ObjectsStrong Nationstoughness

And in that you saw the iron mixed with common clay, they will combine with one another in the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine with pottery.

Verse ConceptsIron ObjectsMixing PeopleNot MixingInterracial Marriageinterracial

Israel is swallowed up!Now they are among the nationslike discarded pottery.

Verse ConceptsSwallowingForeigners Included Among The People

Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenPower Of God, DescribedReprobatesPeople Have HonourPurposeBeauty And Self Worthpotmoldhonour

and he will shepherd them with an iron scepter;he will shatter them like pottery—just as I have received this from My Father.

Verse ConceptsGovernmentIronSceptreSymbolsRodsIron ObjectsAuthority Of DisciplesRelationship Of Father And SonThe Father's Activity Regarding Christ

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