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clay, dirt, mire

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

Used variously (Psa. 18:42⁴²Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets. (Psalm 18:42); Isa. 57:20²⁰But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. (Isaiah 57:20); Jer. 38:6⁶Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. (Jeremiah 38:6); John 9:6⁶When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, (John 9:6)); for making pottery (Isa. 41:25²⁵I 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 mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay. (Isaiah 41:25)); for brick-making (2 Sam. 12:31³¹And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem. (2 Samuel 12:31)); for sealing (Job 38:14¹⁴It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. (Job 38:14)); for writing tablets.

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:

2916 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Transliteration:

tiyt

Phonic:

teet

Meaning:

from an unused root meaning apparently to be sticky (rath. perb. a demon. from 2894, through the idea of dirt to be swept away); mud or clay; figuratively, calamity

KJV Usage:

clay, dirt, mire