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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 Box Gen 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 - Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 - How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 - Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 - Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19 - He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6 - Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 - It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:30 - Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:42

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42 - Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 - He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:14 - Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:23 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - I 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 morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 64:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 - But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:10 - Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 - Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 - And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:5 - And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
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