The word in Scripture

Potter in the Bible

The word potter appears 19 times in the King James Version of the Bible. The potter shapes the clay according to his purpose. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What potter means in the Bible

The potter shapes the clay according to his purpose.

Where the word potter appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word potter appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”Psalms 2:9

“I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.”Isaiah 41:25

“But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.”Isaiah 64:8

“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.”Jeremiah 18:2

“Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;”Jeremiah 19:1

“And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.”Matthew 27:7

“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”Romans 9:21

“And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.”Revelation 2:27