Pot. The term "pot" is applicable to so many sorts of vessels that it can scarcely be restricted to any one in particular.
1. (Hebrew, Asuc), 2 Kings 4:2, the earthen jar, deep and narrow, without handles, probably like the Roman and Egyptian amphora, inserted in a stand of wood or stone.
2. (Hebrew, Cheres), an earthen vessel for stewing or seething. Leviticus 6:28; Ezekiel 4:9.
3. (Hebrew, Dud), a vessel for culinary purposes, perhaps of smaller size. 1 Samuel 2:14. The "pots" set before the Rachabites, Jeremiah 35:5, were probably bulging jars or bowls. The water-pots of Cana appear to have been large amphorae, such as are in use at the present day in Syria. These were of stone or hard earthenware. The water-pot of the Samaritan woman may have been a leathern bucket, such as Bedouin women use.