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Lexicon :: Strong's H2916 - ṭîṭ

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טִיט
Transliteration
ṭîṭ
Pronunciation
teet
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning apparently to be sticky [rath perb. a demon. From טוּא (H2894), through the idea of dirt to be swept away]
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 796a

Strong’s Definitions

טִיט ṭîyṭ, teet; from an unused root meaning apparently to be sticky (rather perhaps a demonstrative); from H2894, through the idea of dirt to be swept away); mud or clay; figuratively, calamity:—clay, dirt, mire.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x

The KJV translates Strong's H2916 in the following manner: mire (8x), clay (3x), dirt (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x
The KJV translates Strong's H2916 in the following manner: mire (8x), clay (3x), dirt (2x).
  1. mud, clay, mire, damp dirt

    1. mud, mire

    2. clay (poetical)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
טִיט ṭîyṭ, teet; from an unused root meaning apparently to be sticky (rather perhaps a demonstrative); from H2894, through the idea of dirt to be swept away); mud or clay; figuratively, calamity:—clay, dirt, mire.
STRONGS H2916: Abbreviations
טִיט noun masculine mud, mire, clay (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian ṭîṭu, id., Flood Tablet iii, 10. 25) — absolute טִיט Job 41:22 + 6 times; construct id. Micah 7:10 + 5 times; —
1. mud, mire of streets (always in simile of contempt, ignominious treatment) חוּצוֺת ט׳ Micah 7:10; Psalm 18:43 = 2 Samuel 22:43; Zechariah 9:3; Zechariah 10:5; of Jeremiah's dungeon Jeremiah 38:6 (twice in verse); of mire in which crocodile lies Job 41:22; cast up by sea Isaiah 57:20 (|| רֶפֶשׁ); of a bog (figurative of distress) Psalm 69:15 and הַיָּוֵן ט׳ Psalm 40:30.
2. poetic of potter's clay (|| חֹמֶר) Isaiah 41:25, brick-clay (|| id.) Nahum 3:14.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Samuel

22:43

Job

41:22; 41:22

Psalms

18:43; 69:15

Isaiah

41:25; 57:20

Jeremiah

38:6

Micah

7:10; 7:10

Nahum

3:14

Zechariah

9:3; 10:5

H2916

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2916 matches the Hebrew טִיט (ṭîṭ),
which occurs 13 times in 12 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 -

“Then I beat them as [small as] the dust of the earth;

I crushed and stamped them as the mire (dirt, mud) of the streets.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:30 -

“His underparts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery;

He moves across and spreads out [grooves] like a threshing sledge on the mire (muddy river banks).

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42 -

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

I emptied them out as the dirt of the streets.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 -

He brought me up out of a horrible pit [of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay,

And He set my feet upon a rock, steadying my footsteps and establishing my path.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:14 -

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

Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep waters.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 -

“I have stirred up and put into action [fn]one from the north [the king of Persia, Cyrus the Great], and he has come;

From the rising of the sun he will call on My Name [in prayer].

And he will trample on [the Babylonian] officials as on mortar,

Even as a potter treads clay.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:20 -

But the wicked are like the tossing sea,

For it cannot be quiet,

And its waters toss up mire and mud.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:6 - So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the [fn]cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down [into the cistern] with ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:10 -

Then my enemy [all the pagan nations] shall see it,

And shame [for despising the LORD] will cover her who said to me,

“Where is the LORD your God?”

My eyes will look on her [with satisfaction at her judgment];

Now she (unbelievers) will be trampled down

Like mud of the streets.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 -

Draw water for a [long, continued] siege!

Strengthen your fortresses!

Go down to the clay pits, trample the mortar!

Prepare the brick kiln [to burn bricks for the rampart]!

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 -

For Tyre built herself an [impregnable] stronghold [on an island offshore],

And she has heaped up silver like dust

And gold like the mire of the streets.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:5 -

“They will be like mighty men

Trampling down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle;

And they will fight because the LORD is with them,

And the [enemies’] riders on horses will be shamed.

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