A “shred”, i.e., anything severed, as a fragment of earthenware (Job 2:8; Prov. 26:23; Isa. 45:9).
Potsherd
2 verses
Job
Job 2:8
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Isaiah
Isaiah 45:9
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
Matthew George Easton, 1897
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884
also in Authorized Version "sherd," a broken piece of earthenware. (Proverbs 26:23)