Easton's Bible Dictionary A "shred", i.e., anything severed, as a fragment of earthenware (Job 2:8; Proverbs 26:23; Isaiah 45:9). Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) A piece or fragment of a broken pot. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia POTSHERD pot'-shurd (cheres): A piece of earthenware (Job 2:8 Psalm 22:15 Isaiah 45:9). the Revised Version (British and American) renders the word in Proverbs 26:23, "an earthen vessel," and in Job 41:30 substitutes "sharp potsherds" for "sharp stones." Sirach 22:7 refers to the art of "gluing a potsherd (ostrakon) together." See HARSITH; OSTRACA. POTSHERD GATE (Jeremiah 19:2). See HARSITH.

Multi-Version Concordance Potsherd (6 Occurrences) Job 2:8 He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV) Psalms 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV) Proverbs 26:23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. (KJV WBS YLT) Isaiah 30:14 And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters' bottle, Beaten down -- He doth not spare, Nor is there found, in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning, And to draw out waters from a ditch. (YLT) Isaiah 45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NIV) Jeremiah 19:2 and thou hast gone forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, that 'is' at the opening of the gate of the pottery, and hast proclaimed there the words that I speak unto thee, (See NAS RSV NIV)