Pot

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. t.) To secure; gain; win; bag.

(2): ( v. i.) To take a pot shot or shots, as at game or an enemy.

(3): ( n.) The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing or card playing; the pool;

(4): ( n.) A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in a jocose sense, any helmet; - called also pot helmet.

(5): ( n.) The total of the bets at one time; the pool.

(6): ( v. t.) To shoot for the pot, i.e., cooking; to secure or hit by a pot shot; to shoot when no special skill is needed.

(7): ( n.) a horse heavily backed; a favorite.

(8): ( n.) A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.

(9): ( v. t.) To place or inclose in pots

(10): ( v. i.) To tipple; to drink.

(11): ( v. t.) To pocket.

(12): ( v. t.) To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off.

(13): ( v. t.) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.

(14): ( v. t.) To preserve seasoned in pots.

(15): ( n.) An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.

(16): ( n.) A size of paper. See Pott.

(17): ( n.) A perforated cask for draining sugar.

(18): ( n.) A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.

(19): ( n.) A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.

(20): ( n.) A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.

(21): ( n.) The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Ξέστης (Strong'S #3582 — Noun Masculine — xestes — xes'-tace )

was a Sicilian corruption of the Latin liquid measure sextarius, about a pint; in  Mark 7:4 (ver. 8 also in some mss.) it denotes "a pitcher," of wood or stone.

2: Στάμνος (Strong'S #4713 — Noun Feminine — stammnos — stam'-nos )

primarily "an earthen jar" for racking off wine, hence, "any kind of jar," occurs in  Hebrews 9:4 .

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

 Job 41:20 (c) This animal, the whale, or some other great sea monster blowing the water from the head in some form, is likened to the boiling pot.

 Psalm 60:8 (b) The Lord used Moab for the cleansing of Israel when she needed punishment for her idolatry and sin. Moab was one of GOD's pots in which He washed some of the filth of His people. GOD uses whomsoever He pleases for His purposes.

 Jeremiah 1:13 (b) This is a type of the great outbreak and overthrow of the armed might from the northern country in the time of GOD's earthly judgments upon Jerusalem.

 Ezekiel 24:3 (b) Jerusalem is the pot in which GOD will destroy His people who have been so rebellious and wicked.

 John 2:6 (c) These may be taken as a type of the six people in John who are outstanding in their transformed lives; Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman, the lame man in chapter5, the blind man, Lazarus, and the nobleman's son in chapter4.

 John 4:28 (c) This may be used as a type of earthly desires and preparations for earthly pleasures which are laid aside as of no further use when the soul trusts Christ and is satisfied with the water of life.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Pot. The term "pot" is applicable to so many sorts of vessels that it can scarcely be restricted to any one in particular.

1. (Hebrew, Asuc ),  2 Kings 4:2, the earthen jar, deep and narrow, without handles, probably like the Roman and Egyptian amphora , inserted in a stand of wood or stone.

2. (Hebrew, Cheres ), an earthen vessel for stewing or seething.  Leviticus 6:28;  Ezekiel 4:9.

3. (Hebrew, Dud ), a vessel for culinary purposes, perhaps of smaller size.  1 Samuel 2:14. The "pots" set before the Rachabites,  Jeremiah 35:5, were probably bulging jars or bowls. The water-pots of Cana appear to have been large amphorae , such as are in use at the present day in Syria. These were of stone or hard earthenware. The water-pot of the Samaritan woman may have been a leathern bucket, such as Bedouin women use.

King James Dictionary

POT, n.

1. A vessel more deep than broad, made of earth, or iron or other metal, used for several domestic purposes as an iron pot, for boiling meat or vegetables a pot for holding liquors a cup, as a pot of ale an earthen pot for plants, called a flower pot, &c. 2. A sort of paper of small sized sheets.

To go to pot, to be destroyed, ruined, wasted or expended. A low phrase.

POT, To preserve seasoned in pots as potted fowl and fish.

1. To inclose or cover in pots of earth. 2. To put in casks for draining as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler and placing it in hogsheads with perforated heads, from which the molasses percolates through the spongy stalk of a plantain leaf.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Vessels And Utensils

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

POT . See House, § 9 .

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

pot  : A term used as the translation of a number of Hebrew and Greek words whose fundamental meaning seems to describe them as intended for the most part to hold liquid or semi-liquid substances, but the pots of   Exodus 27:3 are intended to hold ashes. (1) סר , ṣı̄r , the most common word for "pot." It designates most frequently some household utensil, probably a pot or kettle for boiling. So  2 Kings 4:38 ff;   Exodus 16:3;  Jeremiah 1:13 the King James Version;   Ezekiel 11:3 ,  Ezekiel 11:7 ,  Ezekiel 11:11 , "caldron";  Ezekiel 24:3 ,  Ezekiel 24:6 the King James Version;   Micah 3:3;  Zechariah 14:21 , etc. It is also used as the name of some vessel of the sanctuary. So  Exodus 27:3 , where the context shows it was intended to hold ashes;  1 Kings 7:45;  2 Chronicles 4:16;  2 Kings 25:14 . In  Psalm 60:8;  Psalm 108:9 , it is a pot for washing. (2) פּריּר , pārūr ( Numbers 11:8;  1 Samuel 2:14 ), a vessel for boiling; in  Judges 6:19 , a vessel for holding broth. (3) דּוּד , dūdh , rendered "pot" in  Psalm 81:6 in the King James Version, "basket" in the Revised Version (British and American); "pot" both the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) in   Job 41:20 . (4) צנצנת , cinceneth ( Exodus 16:33 ), the jar in which the manna was placed. This jar or pot is mentioned in  Hebrews 9:4 under the name στάμνος , stámnos . (5) אסון , 'āṣōn ( 2 Kings 4:2 ), some kind of jar for holding oil. (6) ξέστης , xéstēs ( Mark 7:4 ), some kind of household utensil. Mention may also be made of the word rendered "pot" in  Leviticus 6:28 the King James Version, where the Revised Version (British and American) renders more correctly by the general term "vessel"; for the King James Version "pots" (  Psalm 68:13 ) the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes "sheepfolds." The root is uncertain. Those who render "sheepfolds" connect with the related root in  Genesis 49:14;  Judges 5:16 . Others render "fireplaces" or "ash heaps." See also "range for pots," in  Leviticus 11:35; "pots,"  Jeremiah 35:5 the King James Version, correctly "bowls" the Revised Version (British and American); "refining pots" in   Proverbs 17:3;  Proverbs 27:21 . See also Food .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bibliography Information McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Pot'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/p/pot.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.