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sherd

noun

«sherd» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

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

This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sherd/