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Thing

Pan, pot, pail

Human-made Things in the Bible

The pot was a bronze container used to collect the ashes and animal remains that were on the altar after the sacrificial victim had been burned. The same implement could serve, in another context, as a simple, fairly large cooking pot (see Cooking pot, kettle).

Pictures

Bronze cauldron with swinging handle (Etruscan, ca. 550 BCE)
Bronze cauldron with swinging handle (Etruscan, ca. 550 BCE)Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, MMA

In the Bible

The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used

סִיר sir · 10 verses

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Also in Tabernacle and Temple implements

Fork7 versesTongs7 versesBasin, bowl41 versesSmall shovel, firepan17 versesLarge shovel, scraper9 versesCenser8 versesPlate17 versesIncense dish23 versesJar for the wine offering, libation vessel5 verses

Sources

Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema