The following are the words so rendered in the Eng- lish Bible :
1. T^CX, usuk (Sept. dyytiov), applied to holding oil (2 Kings iv, 2), probably was an earthen jar, deep and narrow, without handles, apparently like the Roman and Egyptian amphora, inserted in a stand of wood or stone (see Wilkinson, inc. Egypt, i, 47; Sandys, Trav. p. 150). See Pitcher.
2. Sp^a, gahia (Sept. Kipdpiov, Vulg. scyphus, Jer. xxxv, 5; elsewhere "bowl" or "cup"), probably a bulg- ing jar or bowl for liquids. See Bowl.
3. 1W, dud (Sept. Ko<pivoQ, Job xli, 20; Psa. lxxxi, (i; elsewhere "basket," "caldron," "kettle"), a vessel for culinary purposes, mentioned (1 Sam. ii, 14) in con- junction with "caldron" and "kettle," and so perhaps of smaller size. See Kettle.
4. :0"lH, cheres ("potsherd," Job ii, 8; Psa. xxii, 15; Prov. xxvi, 23 ; Isa. xlv, 9 ; elsewhere " earthen," etc.), an earthen vessel for stewing or seething. Such a ves- sel was used for baking (Ezek. iv, 9). It is contrasted in the same passage (Lev. vi, 28) with a metal vessel for the same purpose. See Potsherd.
5. "'bs, keli (Sept. okevoq, Lev.vi, 28), a vessel of any kind (as usually elsewhere rendered). See Vessel.
6. "P3, Mr (only once and in the dual, Lev. xi, 35, " ranges for pots"). See Range.
7. I^D, sir (Sept. A«/3?jc, Vulg. olla, the most usual and appropriate word, Exod. xxxviii, 3; 2 Kings iv, 38-41; xxv, 14; 2 Chron. iv, 11, 16; xxxv, 13 ; Job xli, 31; Psa. lviii, 9; Eccles. vii, 6; Jer. i, 13; Ezek. xxiv, :;, 6; Mic. iii, 3; Zech. xiv, 10, 21). It is also used, combined with other words, to denote special uses, as with WES (Jer. i, 13), "a seething-pot;" with "ib2, "flesh" (Exod. xvi, 3); yrn, "washing" (Psa. lx,8); rp^, "fining-pot" (Prov. xxvii, 21). The blackness which such vessels would contract is alluded to in Joel ii, 6. See Caldron.
8. ^"i^.parur (Sept. xoXkhov, Vulg. caeabus, Judg. vi, 19; 1 Sam. ii, 14; "pan," Numb, xi, 8), apparently an open flat vessel. See Pan.
9. P.3X3S, tsintse'neth (Sept. arapvoc, Vulg. vas, Exod. xvi, 33), a covered vessel for preserving things (comp. Heb. ix, 4). See Manna.
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10. I'TZ-. shephatta'yim (Sept. icXf/por, Tsa. lxviii. 13; ■■ books," Ezek. xl, 4d>, opposite rows, as of sheep- folds.
11. Uornc. (Mark vii. 4, 8), properly a sextarius or sixteenth part of the mafiiM or "bushel,"= nearly one
lish; hence a cup generally. See Mi tsuRE,
12. nr ijivoQ (Heb. ix. 1 i, an earthen jug or jar, -No. 9 above.
L3. vdpia (John ii. 6, 7; iv, 28), a "water-pot1 for any liquid. The water-pota of (ana appear to have been large amphorae, such as are in use at the present day in Syria | Fisher, Views, p. 56; Jolliffe, i. 33). These were of stone or hard earthenware; but gold, silver. 1 ir.i-s. < 'r copper was also used for vessels both for do- mestic and also, with marked preference, for ritual use (1 Kings vii. 45; x. 21 ; 2 Chron. iv. 16; i\. 20; Mark vii. 1: Michaelis, Laws of Moses, § 217, iii. 335, ed. Smith i. The water-po( of the Samaritan woman may have been a leathern bucket, such a-. Bedawin women use Burckhardt, Notes, i. 15). See Water-pot.
P< i T. "Holy-water Pot" or •• Holy-water A" vsk," and Sprinkle (=sprinkling- brush), are implements used iu Roman Catholic churches for
sprinkling the altar and priest and people with the holy water
on Sunday. Holy -water pots, BUCh as is represented in the cut, are from five and a quarter to seven and a half inches in diam-
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Holy-water Pot.
theprefecl ofEgypr. by t breats, was led to her mother, Marcella.
S^ Potamiana, a Christian
martyr in the time of Severus, in the beginning of the 3d cen- tury, was a slave of rare personal beauty; but for not reciprocat- ing the passion of her master she w;b given up as a Christian to She was scourged : and. unmoved the fire and burned, together with Scalding pitch was poured upon her body, which she bore with great patience. 15a- silides. her executioner, embraced Christianity, and Buffered martyrdom. SeeSchaff, Church History, \, 169.
Potamius, an ecclesiastic of Spanish birth, flour- ished as bishop of Lisbon in the middle of the Ith cen- tury; and if the lirst of the pieces mentioned helow lie genuine, he must, in the early part of his career, have been a champion of the Catholic faith. Subsequently, however, he was a zealous Anan. and it is believed thai he drew up the document known in ecclesiastical his- tory as 'Hi' Second Sirmian Creed, The writings usu- ally ascribed to Potamius are. Epistola ad Aihanasium / Alexandrinum de Consubstantialitale Filii Dei, in some MSS. entitled Epistola Potamii ad Atha- nasium ab Arianis (impetitum ?) postquatn in Concilia Ariminensi subscripserunt, composed in the year LD. 355, while the opinions of the author were yet orthodox. The authenticity of this piece, however, which is char- acterized by great obscurity of thought and of expres- sion, and often half barbarous in phraseology, is very doubtful. It was tirst published by the Benedictine D'Achery, in his Spicilegium veterum aliquot Scripto- rinit i Paris, 1661, Ho), ii. 366, or iii. 299 of the new i di- tion by Baluze I 17 17. fol. |, and will be found in its best form in Galland's Bibliotheca Patrum I Venice, 1 769, fol.), v. 96 ■■ Si > " ■/' Lazaro : — S< rmo <l> Martyrio Esaia Proph* i'i . These are t wo discourses resembling in style the epistle t" Uhanasius, long attributed to Zeno, bishop of Verona, and published, without suspicion, among his works, until the brothers Ballerini (S. '/.,- nonis Sermones [ibid. 1739, fol. J, p. 297 303) proved that they must be assigned to Potamius, whom, how- ever, they supposed to be a person altogether different from the bishop of Lisbon, and belonging to a different