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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
Dictionary Aids

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 - They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:14

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 rigorously [fn]imposed on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 - “Then I pulverized them as the dust of the earth;
I crushed and stamped them as the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 - ‘How much more those who dwell in houses of clay,
Whose foundation is in the dust,
Who are crushed before the moth!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 - ‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
And would You turn me into dust again?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 - “Though he piles up silver like dust
And prepares garments as plentiful as the clay,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19 - “He has cast me into the mire,
And I have become like dust and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6 - “Behold, I belong to God like you;
I too have been [fn]formed out of the clay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 - “It is changed like clay under the seal;
And they stand forth like a garment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:30 - “His underparts are like sharp potsherds;
He [fn]spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:42

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42 - Then I beat them fine as the dust before the wind;
I emptied them out as the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 - He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the [fn]miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:14 - Deliver me from the mire and do not let me sink;
May I be delivered from [fn]my foes and from the [fn]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 hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:16

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”?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - “I have aroused one from the north, and he has come;
From the rising of the sun he will call on My name;
And he will come upon rulers as upon mortar,
Even as the potter treads clay.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 - “Woe to the one who quarrels with his [fn]Maker—
An earthenware vessel [fn]among the vessels of earth!
Will the clay say to the [fn]potter, ‘What are you doing?’
Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 64:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 - But now, O LORD, You are our Father,
We are the clay, and You our potter;
And all of us are the work of Your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - “Can I not, O house of Israel, 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, O house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:10

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 on her;
[fn]At that time she will [fn]be trampled down
Like mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 - Draw for yourself water for the siege!
Strengthen your fortifications!
Go into the clay and tread the mortar!
Take hold of the brick mold!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 - For Tyre built herself a fortress
And piled up silver like dust,
And gold like the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:5 - “They will be as mighty men,
Treading down the enemy in the mire of the streets in battle;
And they will fight, for the LORD will be with them;
And the riders on horses will be put to shame.
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