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In biblical literature, the term "cracked" is not directly used in the Berean Standard Bible translation. However, the concept of something being cracked or broken can be found in various passages that discuss brokenness, both in a physical and spiritual sense. The imagery of cracked or broken objects often symbolizes a deeper spiritual truth or condition.
Physical Brokenness:The Bible frequently uses physical brokenness to illustrate spiritual realities. For example, in
Jeremiah 2:13 , God speaks through the prophet Jeremiah, saying, "For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water." Here, the "broken cisterns" symbolize the futility of relying on anything other than God for sustenance and fulfillment. The cracked cisterns represent the spiritual emptiness and inadequacy of idolatry and self-reliance.
Spiritual Brokenness:The concept of brokenness is also prevalent in the spiritual context, where it often refers to a state of humility and contrition before God.
Psalm 51:17 states, "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise." In this verse, a "broken spirit" signifies a heart that is repentant and fully aware of its need for God's mercy and grace. The imagery of being cracked or broken is used to convey the idea of being open and receptive to God's transformative work.
Restoration and Healing:While the Bible acknowledges the reality of brokenness, it also emphasizes God's power to restore and heal.
Isaiah 61:1 proclaims, "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners." This passage highlights God's mission to heal those who are spiritually and emotionally broken, offering hope and restoration through His anointed servant.
Symbolism in Pottery:The imagery of cracked pottery is another biblical motif that illustrates the relationship between God and His people. In
Jeremiah 18:4 , the prophet observes a potter working with clay: "But the vessel he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand, so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do." This passage underscores God's sovereignty and ability to reshape and redeem His people, even when they are flawed or broken.
Conclusion:The concept of being cracked or broken in the Bible serves as a powerful metaphor for human frailty, sin, and the need for divine intervention. Through the imagery of broken cisterns, spirits, and pottery, Scripture communicates the profound truth that while humanity is inherently flawed, God offers restoration and wholeness to those who turn to Him in faith and repentance.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
imp. & p. p.) of Crack.
2. (a.) Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.
3. (a.) Crack-brained.
Strong's Hebrew
2865. chathath -- to be shattered or dismayed... root Definition to be shattered or dismayed NASB Word Usage been shattered (3),
break (1),
cracked (1), dismay (1), dismayed (26), frighten (1), shatter (1
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The Sins of the Elect and of the Penitent are of Many Kinds, but...
... Next they gave them in who had them half-withered andcracked; [325] and many of
them gave them in green and without cracks; and some green and with offshoots...
Getting the Kernel
... The smallest child picked it up; and as his mother went on cracking others, he held
it up to her and in his baby language asked to have itcracked....
Justification by Faith
... to our trust a perfect crystal vase, and had said, "If you keep that whole, and
present it to me, you shall have a reward." But we havecracked it, chipped it...
A New Year's Benediction
... not tell them, "You must do this or that, or you will be punished; you must do this,
and then you shall obtain a reward for it." They nevercracked the whip of...
The Temples and the Gods of Chaldaea
... on the contrary, they are merely heaps of rubbish in which no architectural outline
can be distinguished"mounds of stiff and greyish clay,cracked by the sun...
"The Fruit of the Spirit is Love"
... ask of God. Remember that if a vessel that ought to be one whole iscracked
into many pieces, it cannot be filled. You can take...
The Handwriting Blotted Out
... Away back in his life we should find numerouscracked commandments. His exposure
is only the falling of the vase to pieces. FALSE WEIGHTS....
A Picture of Conversion. 2 Kings ii. 19-22.
... We have this treasure in earthen vessels, and if we are to be useful, we
had better becracked, if clean, than entire, but vile....
The Agony, and the Consoler
... Men had seen a spectral woman, tall and horrible, passing through all the streets
with a whip, which shecracked in the air with terrific noise....
Crucifixion of the Thieves.
... made of the bark of trees, and fastened their wrists, elbows, knees, and feet in
like manner, drawing the cords so tight that their jointscracked, and the...
Thesaurus
Cracked (6 Occurrences)... 1. (imp. & pp) of Crack. 2. (a.) Coarsely ground or broken; as,
cracked wheat. 3.
(a.) Crack-brained. Multi-Version Concordance
Cracked (6 Occurrences).
...Chapt (1 Occurrence)
... means "broken," "terrified" or "dismayed." This term as it occurs in Jeremiah
14:4 is rendered "chapt" in English Versions of the Bible, "cracked" in the...
Crack (5 Occurrences)
Necked (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Having (such) a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff-necked.
3. (a.)Cracked; -- said of a treenail. Multi-Version Concordance...
Groats (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n. pl.) Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken
or crushed; in high milling,cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits....
Flowers (42 Occurrences)
... colors fade into masses of withered leaves (not uncommonly cleared by burning),
and then even these are blown, away, so that but bare,cracked and baked earth...
Food-bags (1 Occurrence)
... Joshua 9:4 Acting with deceit, got food together as if for a long journey; and took
old food-bags for their asses, and old andcracked wine-skins kept together...
Trachonitis (1 Occurrence)
... At times we passed over vast sheets of lava which in cooling hadcracked in nearly
regular lines, and which, broken through in parts, appeared to rest on a...
Mine (2991 Occurrences)
... The shafts frequently extended into the ground a distance of 180 to 200 ft. The
rock when too hard to be dug out was firstcracked by having fires built on it....
Mining
... The shafts frequently extended into the ground a distance of 180 to 200 ft. The
rock when too hard to be dug out was firstcracked by having fires built on it....
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