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Lexicon :: Strong's H5518 - sîr

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סִיר
Transliteration
sîr
Pronunciation
seer
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a primitive root meaning to boil up
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TWOT Reference: 1489,1490

Strong’s Definitions

סִיר çîyr, seer; or (feminine) סִירָה çîyrâh; or סִרָה çirâh; (Jeremiah 52:18), from a primitive root meaning to boil up; a pot; also a thorn (as springing up rapidly); by implication, a hook:—caldron, fishhook, pan, (wash-)pot, thorn.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x

The KJV translates Strong's H5518 in the following manner: pot (21x), caldron (5x), thorns (4x), washpot (with H7366) (2x), pans (1x), fishhooks (with H1729) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x
The KJV translates Strong's H5518 in the following manner: pot (21x), caldron (5x), thorns (4x), washpot (with H7366) (2x), pans (1x), fishhooks (with H1729) (1x).

  1. pot

    1. pot (household utensil)

    2. pot (of temple)

  2. thorn, hook, brier

    1. thorns

    2. hooks

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סִיר çîyr, seer; or (feminine) סִירָה çîyrâh; or סִרָה çirâh; (Jeremiah 52:18), from a primitive root meaning to boil up; a pot; also a thorn (as springing up rapidly); by implication, a hook:—caldron, fishhook, pan, (wash-)pot, thorn.
STRONGS H5518: Abbreviations
† I. סִיר noun masculineJeremiah 1:13 and feminine 2 Kings 4:38 pot (probably foreign word (Egyptian ?), Arabic bdb069601 a large water-jar Lane1276is perhaps loan-word; on Greek derivatives σιρός, σίρινος see LewyFremdw. 107); — ס׳ absolute 2 Kings 4:38 +, construct Exodus 16:3 +; plural סִירֹת Exodus 38:3, סִירוֺת 1 Kings 7:45 +; suffix סִירֹתָיו Exodus 27:3, סִירֹתֵיכֶם Psalm 58:10; — pot:
1.
a. household utensil for boiling 2 Kings 4:38, 39, 40, 41 (twice in verse) הַבָּשָׂר ס׳ Exodus 16:3 (P), Zechariah 14:21; נָפוּחַ ס׳ Jeremiah 1:13 (compare נפח in vision), symbolic of Jerusalem Ezekiel 11:3, 7, 11; Ezekiel 24:3, 6; figurative also Psalm 58:10 (compare Che); in simile Micah 3:3; Job 41:23; Ecclesiastes 7:6.
b. רַחְצִי ס׳ Psalm 60:10 my washing-pot, Psalm 108:10.
2. pots used in sanctuary, Ezekiel 27:3; Ezekiel 38:3 (both P), 1 Kings 7:40 (read סִירוֺת for MT כִּיִּרוֺת, so Manuscripts of HCT Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate Th Ke Klo Kmp Benz), 1 Kings 7:45 2 Chronicles 4:11, 16; 2 Kings 25:14 = Jeremiah 52:18, also Jeremiah 52:19; 2 Chronicles 35:13; Zechariah 14:20. — Here belongs probably סִרָה in בּוֺר הַסִּרָה.

† II. [סִיר] noun [masculine] thorn, hook (Targum id.; compare סירם in Sabean proper name HomZMG xivi (1892), 532); —
1. plural סִירִים thorns, sign of desolation Isaiah 34:13, a barrier Hosea 2:8, on Nahum 1:10 see [סָבַךְ]; תַּחַת הַסִּיר כְּקוֺל הַסּ׳ Ecclesiastes 7:6 as the sound of thorns (crackling as they burn) under the pot.
2. plural סִירוֺת hooks Amos 4:2 (compare דּוּגָה below דגה; || צִנּוֺת; on relation of meanings see חוֺחַ, צֵן).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

16:3; 16:3; 27:3; 38:3

1 Kings

7:40; 7:45; 7:45

2 Kings

4:38; 4:38; 4:38; 4:39; 4:40; 4:41; 25:14

2 Chronicles

4:11; 4:16; 35:13

Job

41:23

Psalms

58:10; 58:10; 60:10; 108:10

Ecclesiastes

7:6; 7:6

Isaiah

34:13

Jeremiah

1:13; 1:13; 52:18; 52:19

Ezekiel

11:3; 11:7; 11:11; 24:3; 24:6; 27:3; 38:3

Hosea

2:8

Amos

4:2

Micah

3:3

Nahum

1:10

Zechariah

14:20; 14:21

H5518

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Strong's Number H5518 matches the Hebrew סִיר (sîr),
which occurs 34 times in 32 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3 - And the children of Israel said to them, “Oh, that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:3 - “Also you shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:3 - He made all the utensils for the altar: the pans, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the firepans; all its utensils he made of bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:45

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:45 - the pots, the shovels, and the bowls. All these articles which Huram[fn] made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of burnished bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:38 - And Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was a famine in the land. Now the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:39

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:39 - So one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered from it a lapful of wild gourds, and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, though they did not know what they were.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:40

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:40 - Then they served it to the men to eat. Now it happened, as they were eating the stew, that they cried out and said, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:41

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:41 - So he said, “Then bring some flour.” And he put it into the pot, and said, “Serve it to the people, that they may eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:14 - They also took away the pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which the priests ministered.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:11 - Then Huram made the pots and the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work that he was to do for King Solomon for the house of God:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 4:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:16 - also the pots, the shovels, the forks—and all their articles Huram his master[fn] craftsman made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:13 - Also they roasted the Passover offerings with fire according to the ordinance; but the other holy offerings they boiled in pots, in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them quickly among all the lay people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:31 - He makes the deep boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 58:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:9 - Before your pots can feel the burning thorns,
He shall take them away as with a whirlwind,
As in His living and burning wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 60:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:8 - Moab is My washpot;
Over Edom I will cast My shoe;
Philistia, shout in triumph because of Me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 108:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:9 - Moab is My washpot;
Over Edom I will cast My shoe;
Over Philistia I will triumph.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:6 - For like the crackling of thorns under a pot,
So is the laughter of the fool.
This also is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:13 - And thorns shall come up in its palaces,
Nettles and brambles in its fortresses;
It shall be a habitation of jackals,
A courtyard for ostriches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:13 - And the word of the LORD came to me the second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, and it is facing away from the north.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:18 - They also took away the pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the bowls, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which the priests ministered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:19 - The basins, the firepans, the bowls, the pots, the lampstands, the spoons, and the cups, whatever was solid gold and whatever was solid silver, the captain of the guard took away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:3 - “who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; this city is the caldron, and we are the meat.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:7 - ‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and this city is the caldron; but I shall bring you out of the midst of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:11 - “This city shall not be your caldron, nor shall you be the meat in its midst. I will judge you at the border of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:3 - “And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD:

“Put on a pot, set it on,
And also pour water into it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:6 - ‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:

“Woe to the bloody city,
To the pot whose scum is in it,
And whose scum is not gone from it!
Bring it out piece by piece,
On which no lot has fallen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:6 - “Therefore, behold,
I will hedge up your way with thorns,
And wall her in,
So that she cannot find her paths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:2 - The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness:
“Behold, the days shall come upon you
When He will take you away with fishhooks,
And your posterity with fishhooks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:3 - Who also eat the flesh of My people,
Flay their skin from them,
Break their bones,
And chop them in pieces
Like meat for the pot,
Like flesh in the caldron.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:10 - For while tangled like thorns,
And while drunken like drunkards,
They shall be devoured like stubble fully dried.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 14:20

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:20 - In that day “HOLINESS TO THE LORD” shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The pots in the LORD’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:21 - Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the LORD of hosts.[fn] Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day there shall no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.
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