Hearing God's Voice in DreamsA–Z symbols

Broken Plate in a dream

Biblical meaning from Hearing God's Voice in Dreams by Apostle Nicholas V. Mbanjwa

Also: Broken dish, Broken china, Smashed plate, Shattered plate, Cracked plate, Plate broke, Broke a plate

What it means

A plate in ancient times was called a vessel, the same word used for God's servants in the Bible, which represents a broken minister.

A hurting servant of God

God's servant in a character demise

⚠ When it is a warning

  • A loss of God's servant
  • Death to one of God's children
  • A child of God falling into sin

How to tell the difference

A family's venerated plate or antique plate breaking represents a fractured family's future.

Scripture

1Thus said the LORD, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests; 2and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you. 3Say, ‘Hear the LORD’s word, kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle. 4Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know—they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah—and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

Jeremiah 19:1–11 (WEB)

He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

Isaiah 30:14 (WEB)

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

Psalm 22:15 (WEB)

He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

Job 30:19 (WEB)

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