STRONGS NUMBER H5518


Word Summary
ciyr: a pot
Original Word: סִיר
Transliteration: ciyr
Phonetic Spelling: (seer)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a pot
Meaning: a pot, a thorn, a hook
Strong's Concordance
caldron, fishhook, pan, washpot, thorn

Or (feminine) ciyrah {see-raw'}; or cirah (Jeremiah 52:18) {see-raw'}; from a primitive root meaning to boil up; a pot; also a thorn (as springing up rapidly); by implication, a hook -- caldron, fishhook, pan, ((wash-))pot, thorn.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5518. ciyr

I. סִירnoun masculineJeremiah 1:13 and feminine2 Kings 4:38 pot (probably foreign word (Egyptian ?), Arabic a large water-jar Lane1276is perhaps loan-word; on Greek derivatives σιρός, σίρινος see LewyFremdw. 107); — ׳ס‎ absolute 4:38 +, construct Exodus 16:3 +; plural סִירֹת38:3, סִירוֺת1 Kings 7:45 +; suffix סִירֹתָיוExodus 27:3, סִירֹתֵיכֶםPsalm 58:10; — pot:

1. a. household utensil for boiling 2 Kings 4:38-39, 40, 41 (twice in verse) ׳ס הַבָּשָׂרExodus 16:3 (P), Zechariah 14:21; ׳ס נָפוּחַJeremiah 1:13 (compare נפח‎ in vision), symbolic of Jerusalem Ezekiel 11:3, 7, 11; 24:3, 6; figurative also Psalm 58:10 (compare Che); in simile Micah 3:3; Job 41:23; Ecclesiastes 7:6.

b. ׳ס רַחְצִיPsalm 60:10 my washing-pot, 108:10.

2 pots used in sanctuary, Ezekiel 27:3; 38:3 (both P), 1 Kings 7:40 (read סִירוֺת‎ for כִּיִּרוֺת ᵑ0‎, so Manuscripts of HCT ᵑ9 ᵐ5‎ Th Ke Klo Kmp Benz), 7:45 2 Chronicles 4:11, 16; 2 Kings 25:14 = Jeremiah 52:18, also 52:19; 2 Chronicles 35:13; Zechariah 14:20. — Here belongs probably סִרָה‎ in הַסִּרָה בּוֺר‎.

II. [סִיר‎] noun [masculine] thorn, hook (ᵑ7id.; compare סירם‎ in Sabean proper name HomZMG xivi (1892), 532); —

1 plural סִירִיםthorns, sign of desolation Isaiah 34:13, a barrier Hosea 2:8, on Nahum 1:10 see [ סָבַךְ‎]; הַסּ ׳כְּקוֺל הַסִּיר תַּחַתEcclesiastes 7:6 as the sound of thorns (crackling as they burn) under the pot.

2 plural סִירוֺתhooks Amos 4:2 (compare דּוּגָה‎ below דגה‎; "" צִנּוֺת‎; on relation of meanings see צֵן חוֺחַ,‎).

סָךְ‎, [סֹךְ‎], סֻכּוֺת סֻכָּה,‎ see II. סכך‎.