Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

POTTAGE See EDOM and FOOD. Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Pottage (, nazid, something boiled, Gen 25:29; Gen 25:34). The red pottage for which Esau profanely bartered his birthright was prepared, as we learn from this chapter, by seething lentiles in water, SEE LENTLE; but the common pottage in the East, at the present … Continue reading “POTTAGE”

Pott, Joseph Holden an English divine, noted especially as a Biblical scholar, was born about 1759, and was educated at Eaton and at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1780, M.A. in 1783; was made prebendary of Lincoln in 1785; rector of St. Olave, Jewry, and St. Martin, Ironmongers Lane, in 1787; … Continue reading “Pott, Joseph Holden”

Pott, David Julius, D.D a German theologian, was born at Eimbeckhansen, in Hanover, in 1760. In 1787 he was appointed professor of theology at Helmsthidt, from which place he removed to occupy the same chair at Gtting Genesis While professor at the former place he, with Ruperti, edited the Sylloge Commentatiom Theologicmarum (8 vols. 1800-7), … Continue reading “Pott, David Julius, D.D”

POTSHERDS Broken pieces of earthenware, Job 2:8 Isa 30:14, fit types of the worthlessness and fragility of man, Psa 22:15 Pro 26:23 Isa 45:9 . The ruins of many of the most ancient cities in the world show little but such fragments of pottery covering the ground; it is usually coarse in grain, but well … Continue reading “POTSHERDS”

Potsherd Gate (Jer 19:2). See HARSITH GATE. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Potsherd (, chires, from the root , to scrape or scratch; Sept. ; Vulg. testa, vas fictile; sherd in two places, once stone, often earthen vessel), a bit of pottery ware (Job 2:8), is figuratively used in Scripture to denote a thing worthless and insignificant (Psa 22:15; Pro 26:23 : Isa 45:9). It may illustrate … Continue reading “Potsherd”

POTS Job 41:20, applied in Scripture to a great variety of domestic vessels, of earthenware, iron, brass, and gold, used for cooking and serving food, etc., Jdg 6:19 2Ki 4:40 Psa 58:9 Ecc 7:5 Heb 9:4 . In Psa 68:13, “though ye have lain among the pots,” the Hebrew word means originally cattle-folds; and in … Continue reading “POTS”

Potrimpos is the name of an important deity of the Lithuanians and ancient Prussians previous to the conquest of their country by the Teutonic Order; the second person in the Northern triad Perkunos, Potrimpos, and Pikollos. It was he who granted victory in war and fertility in time of peace: he also dispensed the bliss … Continue reading “Potrimpos (2)”

Potken, Johann a German Roman Catholic ecclesiastic who flourished in the 16th century, is noted in the literary world as the editor of the first printed edition of the Psalms in the Ethiopic language. In 1511, while at Rome, he betook himself to the study of the Ethiopic language, and two years later, in 1513, … Continue reading “Potken, Johann”

Potitii a distinguished family among the ancient Romans, who are said to have received Hercules when he went into Italy, and treated him hospitably on the very spot where Rome was afterwards built. The Potitii were in return invested with the honor of being in all future time the hereditary priests of the god. They … Continue reading “Potitii”