Lexicon :: Strong's H5518 - sîr

The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by pots of meat and ate all the bread we wanted. Instead, you brought us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of hunger! ”

“Make its pots for removing ashes, and its shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans; make all its utensils of bronze.

He made all the altar’s utensils: the pots, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans; he made all its utensils of bronze.

and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling basins. All the utensils that Hiram made for King Solomon at the LORD’s temple were made of burnished bronze.

When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. The sons of the prophets were sitting before him. He said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and make stew for the sons of the prophets.”

They also took the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes, and all the bronze articles used in the priests’ service.

Then Huram[fn] made the pots, the shovels, and the bowls.

So Huram finished doing the work that he was doing for King Solomon in God’s temple:

the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all their utensils ​— ​Huram-abi[fn] made them for King Solomon for the LORD’s temple. All these were made of polished bronze.

They roasted the Passover lambs with fire according to regulation. They boiled the holy sacrifices in pots, kettles, and bowls; and they quickly brought them to the lay people.

He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron;

he makes the sea like an ointment jar.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns —

whether green or burning —

he will sweep them away.[fn]

“Moab is my washbasin.

I throw my sandal on Edom;

I shout in triumph over Philistia.”

“Moab is my washbasin;

I throw my sandal on Edom.

I shout in triumph over Philistia.”

for like the crackling of burning thorns under the pot,

so is the laughter of the fool.

This too is futile.

Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns;

her fortified cities, with thistles and briers.

She will become a dwelling for jackals,

an abode[fn] for ostriches.

Again the word of the LORD came to me asking, “What do you see? ”

And I replied, “I see a boiling pot, its lip tilted from the north to the south.”

They also took the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, dishes, and all the bronze articles used in the temple service.

“They are saying, ‘Isn’t the time near to build houses?[fn] The city is the pot, and we are the meat.’

“ ‘Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: The slain you have put within it are the meat, and the city is the pot, but I[fn] will take you out of it.

“The city will not be a pot for you, and you will not be the meat within it. I will judge you at the border of Israel,

“Now speak a parable to the rebellious house. Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says:

Put the pot on the fire —

put it on,

and then pour water into it!

“ ‘Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says:

Woe to the city of bloodshed,

the pot that has corrosion inside it,

and its corrosion has not come out of it!

Empty it piece by piece;

lots should not be cast for its contents.

Therefore, this is what I will do:

I will block her[fn] way with thorns;

I will enclose her with a wall,

so that she cannot find her paths.

The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness:

Look, the days are coming[fn]

when you will be taken away with hooks,

every last one of you with fishhooks.

“You eat the flesh of my people

after you strip their skin from them

and break their bones.

You chop them up

like flesh for the cooking pot,

like meat in a cauldron.”

For they will be consumed

like entangled thorns,

like the drink of a drunkard

and like straw that is fully dry.[fn]

On that day, the words Holy to the LORD will be on the bells of the horses. The pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling basins before the altar.