Dictionaries :: Pottery

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Pottery:

the art of, was early practised among all nations. Various materials seem to have been employed by the potter. Earthenware is mentioned in connection with the history of Melchizedek (Gen 14:18), of Abraham (18:4-8), of Rebekah (27:14), of Rachel (29:2,3,8,10). The potter's wheel is mentioned by Jeremiah (Jer 18:3). See also (1Ch 4:23; Psa 2:9; Isa 45:9; 64:8; Jer 19:1; Lam 4:2; Zec 11:13; Rom 9:21).

Nave's Topical Bible

Pottery: Clay Prepared For

By treading,

Isa 41:25.

Pottery: Vessels Made Of

Jer 18:3, 4

Pottery: Place for Manufacture Of

Outside the wall of Jerusalem, bought as a burying ground for poor people,

Mat 27:7-10.

Pottery: Figurative:

Isa 64:8; Rom 9:21

Of weakness, in the idol in Nebuchadnezzar's vision,

Dan 2:41.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Pottery:

The art of pottery is one of the most common and most ancient of all manufactures. It is abundantly evident, both that the Hebrews used earthenware vessels in the wilderness and that the potter's trade was afterward carried on in Palestine. They had themselves been concerned in the potter's trade in Egypt (Psalm 81:6) and the wall‐paintings minutely illustrate the Egyptian process. The clay, when dug, was trodden by men's feet so as to form a paste (Isaiah 41:25; Wisdom 15:7) then placed by the potter on the wheel beside which he sat, and shaped by him with his hands. How early the wheel came into use in Palestine is not known, but it seems likely that it was adopted from Egypt (Isaiah 45:9; Jeremiah 15:3). The vessel was then smoothed and coated with a glaze, and finally burnt in a furnace. There was at Jerusalem a royal establishment of potters (1 Chronicles 4:23) from whose employment, and from the fragments cast away in the process, the Potter's Field perhaps received its name (Isaiah 30:11).