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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 they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 - I beat them fine as the dust of the earth, I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 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 BoxJob 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 - Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 - Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6 - Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was formed from a piece of clay.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 - It is changed like clay under the seal, and it is dyed like a garment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:30 - His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 - He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:14 - rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:23 - And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the LORD of hosts."

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay; that the thing made should say of its maker, "He did not make me"; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding"?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, and he shall call on my name; he shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 - "Woe to him who strives with his Maker, an earthen vessel with the potter! Does the clay say to him who fashions it, 'What are you making'? or 'Your work has no handles'?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? says 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 BoxMic 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 gloat over her; now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 - Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; go into the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold!

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 - Tyre has built herself a rampart, and heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:5 - Together they shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the LORD is with them, and they shall confound the riders on horses.
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