Caldron(boiling pot, cauldron)
“A pot or kettle”
Summary
A large cooking vessel used in the tabernacle, temple, and domestic settings for boiling flesh.
☩Types of Caldrons
Several Hebrew words are translated 'caldron' in Scripture, referring to different types of cooking vessels. The qallachath was a pot for cooking used both in the sanctuary and for domestic purposes. The cir (or sir) was distinctly a large pot employed both domestically and in the sanctuary. The dud was another cooking pot, while the agmon in Job 41:20 is better translated 'rushes' rather than caldron. Metallic vessels of this description have been discovered in the ruins of Egypt, and large copper caldrons were found at Nimrud measuring about 2½ feet in diameter and 3 feet deep.
☩Figurative Usage
In Ezekiel's prophecy, the caldron serves as a powerful symbol. The inhabitants of Jerusalem boasted that the city was like a caldron protecting them as meat protected from fire, but God turned their metaphor against them, declaring that Jerusalem would indeed become a caldron—not of protection but of judgment, where the people would be consumed.
Related Verses10 mentions
References
- 1.John McClintock and James Strong, "Caldron," in Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature, vol. II (Harper & Brothers, 1867–1887).
- 2.James Orr (ed.), "Caldron," in International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, vol. I (Howard-Severance Company, 1915).
- 3.George Morrish, "Caldron," in Morrish's Concise Bible Dictionary (George Morrish, 1898).