sherd
noun
In Jewish tradition
In Ezekiel it is the broken pieces of the cup of wrath that Jerusalem must drink and chew.
Interpretation. Tradition reads this as a picture of total punishment, where the people are made to swallow all of the cup that Samaria drank.
Meaning
An old word for a broken piece of pottery, now usually spelled shard. tree →
Examples
- Thou shalt even drink it and drain it, and thou shalt craunch the sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. (Prophets EZK.23.34, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «sherd» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «sherd» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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