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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, , 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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and [fn]fire them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they violently had them perform as slaves.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 -

“Then I pulverized them as the dust of the earth;

I crushed and trampled them like the mud of the streets.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 -

‘How much more those who live in houses of clay,

Whose foundation is in the dust,

Who are crushed before the moth!

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 -

‘Remember that You have made me as clay;

Yet would You turn me into dust again?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 -

“Though he piles up silver like dust,

And prepares garments as plentiful as the clay,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19 -

“He has thrown me into the mire,

And I have become like dust and ashes.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6 -

“Behold, I belong to God, like you;

I too have been [fn]formed out of the clay.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 -

“It is changed like clay under the seal;

And they stand out like a garment.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:30 -

“His underparts are like sharp pieces of pottery;

He [fn]spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mud.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42 -

Then I beat them fine like the dust before the wind;

I emptied them out like the mud of the streets.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 -

He brought me up out of the pit of [fn]destruction, out of the mud;

And He set my feet on a rock, making my footsteps firm.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:14 -

Rescue me from the mud and do not let me sink;

May I be rescued from those who hate me, and from the depths of water.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:23 - “I will also make it the property of the hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of armies.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 -

You turn things around!

Shall the potter be considered [fn]as equal with the clay,

That what is made would say to its maker, “He did not make me”;

Or what is formed say to him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 -

“I have put one from the north into motion, and he has come;

From the rising of the sun he will call on My name;

And he will come upon rulers as upon [fn]mortar,

As the potter treads on clay.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 -

“Woe to the one who quarrels with [fn]his Maker

A piece of pottery [fn]among the other earthenware pottery pieces!

Will the clay say to the [fn]potter, ‘What are you doing?’

Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 -

But now, LORD, You are our Father;

We are the clay, and You our potter,

And all of us are the work of Your hand.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - “Am I not able, house of Israel, to deal with you as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, house of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:10 -

Then my enemy will see,

And shame will cover her who said to me,

“Where is the LORD your God?”

My eyes will look at her;

[fn]At that time she will [fn]be trampled down

Like mud of the streets.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 -

Draw for yourself water for a siege!

Strengthen your fortifications!

Go into the clay and tread the mortar!

Take hold of the brick mold!

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 -

For Tyre built herself a fortress,

And piled up silver like dust,

And gold like the mud of the streets.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:5 -

“And they will be like warriors,

Trampling down the enemy in the mud of the streets in battle;

And they will fight, because the LORD will be with them;

And the riders on horses will be put to shame.

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