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Lexicon :: Strong's G4081 - pēlos

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πηλός
Transliteration
pēlos (Key)
Pronunciation
pay-los'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Perhaps a primary word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:118,838

Strong’s Definitions

πηλός pēlós, pay-los'; perhaps a primary word; clay:—clay.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G4081 in the following manner: clay (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G4081 in the following manner: clay (6x).

  1. clay, which potters uses

  2. mud (wet clay)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πηλός pēlós, pay-los'; perhaps a primary word; clay:—clay.
STRONGS G4081:
πηλός, πηλοῦ, ὁ, from Aeschylus and Herodotus down;
a. clay, which the potter uses (Isaiah 29:16; Isaiah 41:25; Nahum 3:14): Romans 9:21.
b. equivalent to mud (wet 'clay'): John 9:6, 11, 14f.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
29:16; 41:25
Nahum
3:14
John
9:6; 9:11; 9:14
Romans
9:21

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4081 matches the Greek πηλός (pēlos),
which occurs 25 times in 23 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - And they embittered their life by hard labours, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 - And I ground them as the dust of the earth, I beat them small as the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 - But as for them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, he smites them like a moth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 - Remember that thou hast made me as clay, and thou dost turn me again to earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 - Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19 - And thou hast counted me as clay; my portion is in dust and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6 - Thou art formed out of the clay as also I: we have been formed out of the same substance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 - Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:30 - (LXX 41:22) His lair is formed of sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is as an immense quantity of clay.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42 - (LXX 17:43) I will grind them as the mud of the streets: and I will beat them small as dust before the wind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 - (LXX 39:3) And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:14 - (LXX 68:15) Save me from the mire, that I stick not in it: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:23 - And I will make the region of Babylon desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell there, and it shall come to nothing: and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - Shall ye not be counted as clay of the potter? [fn] Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Thou didst not form me? or the work to the maker, Thou hast not made me wisely?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - But I have raised up him that comes from the north, and him that comes from the rising of the sun: they shall be called by my name: let the princes come, and as potter's clay, and as a potter treading clay, so shall ye be trodden down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 - What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the ploughman plough the earth all day? [fn] shall the clay say to the potter, What art thou doing that thou dost not work, nor hast hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 - (LXX 64:7) And now, O Lord, thou art our Father, and we are clay, all of us the work of thine hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - Shall I not be able, O house of Israel, to do to you as this potter? behold, as the clay of the potter are ye in my hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:10 - And she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 - Draw thee water for a siege, and well secure thy strong-holds: enter into the clay, and be thou trodden in the chaff, make the fortifications stronger than brick.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 - And Tyrus built strong-holds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:5 - And they shall be as warriors treading clay in the ways in war; and they shall set the battle in array, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame.
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