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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 - Then they said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 - I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay in the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 - how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 - Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 - If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19 - He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6 - Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 - The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:30 - Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:42

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42 - I grind them as fine windblown dust; I beat them underfoot like clay in the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 - He lifted me out of the watery pit, out of the slimy mud. He placed my feet on a rock and gave me secure footing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:14 - Rescue me from the mud! Don't let me sink! Deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep water!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:23 - "I will turn her into a place that is overrun with wild animals and covered with pools of stagnant water. I will get rid of her, just as one sweeps away dirt with a broom," says the LORD who commands armies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker, "He didn't make me"? Or should the pottery say about the potter, "He doesn't understand"?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - I have stirred up one out of the north and he advances, one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name. He steps on rulers as if they were clay, like a potter treading the clay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 - One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter, "What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 64:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 - Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - "I, the LORD, say: 'O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter's hand.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:10 - When my enemies see this, they will be covered with shame. They say to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" I will gloat over them. Then they will be trampled down like mud in the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 - Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 - Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:5 - And they will be like warriors trampling the mud of the streets in battle. They will fight, for the LORD will be with them, and will defeat the enemy cavalry.
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