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Potsherd
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
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heres . "Sherd," anything "serered". A piece of earthenware broken. Proverbs 26:23, "burning lips (lips professing burning love) and a wicked heart are like a potsherd (a fragment of common earthenware) silvered over with dross"; implying "roughness, dryness, and brittleness". Psalms 22:15, "my strength is dried up like a potsherd" or earthen vessel exposed to heat; the drying up of the vital juices caused Christ's excessive thirst (John 19:28). In Job 2:8 not a potsherd but an instrument for scratching is meant. Isaiah 45:9, i.e. whatever good one might promise himself from striving with his fellow creature of earth, to strive with one's Maker is suicidal madness (Isaiah 27:4).
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Potsherd'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/p/potsherd.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Potsherd'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/p/potsherd.html. 1949.
