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# sherd

«sherd» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **An old word for a broken piece of pottery, now usually…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

An old word for a broken piece of pottery, now usually spelled shard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sherd/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Ezekiel it is the broken pieces of the cup of wrath that Jerusalem must drink and chew. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as a picture of total punishment, where the people are made to swallow all of the cup that Samaria drank.

### examples

- Thou shalt even drink it and drain it, and thou shalt craunch the sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. (Prophets EZK.23.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sherd/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sherd» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sherd/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.