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Pottery

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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7495

רָפָא

ra.pah — to heal

1) to heal, make healthful 1a) (Qal) to heal 1a1) of God 1a2) healer, physician (of men) 1a3) of hurts of nations involving restored favour (fig) 1a4) of individual distresses (fig) 1b) (Niphal) to be healed 1b1) literal (of persons) 1b2) of water, pottery 1b3) of national hurts (fig) 1b4) of personal distress (fig) 1c) (Piel) to heal 1c1) literal 1c2) of national defects or hurts (fig) 1d) (Hithpael) in order to get healed (infinitive)

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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2789

חֶ֫רֶשׂ

che.re.s — earthenware

earthenware, clay pottery, shard, potsherd, earthen vessel

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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3336

יֵ֫צֶר

ye.tser — intention

1) form, framing, purpose, framework 1a) form 1a1) pottery 1a2) graven image 1a3) man (as formed from the dust) 1b) purpose, imagination, device (intellectual framework)

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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3536

כִּבְשָׁן

kiv.shan — kiln

kiln (pottery or lime), smelting forge, furnace

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GREEK · G8541

ὀπτάω

optaō — to bake

1. to roast, broil , (Homer), etc.; with genitive partitive, ὀπτῆσαί τε κρεῶν to roast some meat, (Odyssey by Homer):—; ὀπτᾶν was used of cooking by means of fire or dry heat , opposite to ἕψω to boil in water , which never appears in (Homer); and a [variant datesComica Adespota poet remarks that Homer's heroes ate only roast meat:—;Pass., aor1 infinitive ὀπτηθῆναι (Odyssey by Homer) 2. to bake bread, (Herdotus Historicus):—;also of bricks or pottery, to bake, burn , (Herdotus Historicus) 3. to bake, harden , of the sun, (Bion Bucolicus) 4. metaphorically in Pass. to be burned by love, [Refs 3rd c.BC, variant datesAnthology Palantina (ML)

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Historical dictionary entry

The art of, was early practised among all nations. Various materials seem to have been employed by the potter. Earthenware is mentioned in connection with the history of Melchizedek (Gen. 14:18), of Abraham (18:4-8), of Rebekah (27:14), of Rachel (29:2, 3, 8, 10). The potter’s wheel is mentioned by Jeremiah (18:3). See also 1 Chr. 4:23; Ps. 2:9; Isa. 45:9; 64:8; Jer. 19:1; Lam. 4:2; Zech. 11:13; Rom. 9:21.

Scripture references

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.

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