| Easton's Bible Dictionary A large pot for cooking. The same Hebrew word (dud, "boiling") is rendered also "pot" (Psalm 81:6), "caldron" (2 Chronicles 35:13), "basket" (Jeremiah 24:2). It was used for preparing the peace-offerings (1 Samuel 2:13, 14). Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liquids. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia KETTLE ket'-'l: In English Versions of the Bible only in 1 Samuel 2:14 for dudh, "a vessel for cooking." The same word in 2 Chronicles 35:13 is rendered "caldrons," and in Job 41:20 (Hebrew 12), "pot." Psalm 81:6 (Hebrew 7) (the King James Version "pots") belongs rather to another signification of the word (the Revised Version (British and American) "basket," for carrying clay or bricks). | Multi-Version Concordance Kettle (2 Occurrences) 1 Samuel 2:14 and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fork brought up the priest took therewith. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Micah 3:3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. (See NAS RSV) |