סִיר
çîyr · seer
a pot; also a thorn (as springing up rapidly); by implication, a hook
Lexicon
Derivation: or (feminine) סִירָה; or סִרָה; (Jeremiah 52:18), from a primitive root meaning to boil up;
a pot; also a thorn (as springing up rapidly); by implication, a hook
- a pot
- also, a thorn (as springing up rapidly)
- by implication, a hook
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: caldron, fishhook, pan, (wash-)pot, thorn.
Letters
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to support and uphold › the hand that works › the head, the highest
To support and uphold of the hand that works of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of סִיר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
34 occurrences · 34 OT · 0 NT · 31 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the pots3 · 9%
- and the pots3 · 9%
- pot2 · 6%
- in the pot2 · 6%
- is my washpot2 · 6%
- pots1 · 3%
- his pans1 · 3%
- them into the pot1 · 3%
- it into the pot1 · 3%
- they in pots1 · 3%
- like a pot1 · 3%
- before your pots1 · 3%
- of thorns1 · 3%
- under a pot1 · 3%
- and thorns1 · 3%
- the caldrons1 · 3%
- and the caldrons1 · 3%
- this city is the caldron1 · 3%
- and this city is the caldron1 · 3%
- this city shall not be your caldron1 · 3%
- a pot1 · 3%
- to the pot1 · 3%
- with thorns1 · 3%
- with fishhooks1 · 3%
- as for the pot1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.