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Lexicon :: Strong's G4081 - pēlos

Aa
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 - They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 - I beat them as fine as the dust of the earth; I pounded and trampled them like mud in the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 - how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 - Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 - Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19 - He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6 - I am the same as you in God’s sight; I too am a piece of clay.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 - The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:30 - Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42 - I beat them as fine as windblown dust; I trampled them[fn] like mud in the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 - He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:14 - Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink; deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:23 - “I will turn her into a place for owls and into swampland; I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, “You did not make me”? Can the pot say to the potter, “You know nothing”?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - “I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes— one from the rising sun who calls on my name. He treads on rulers as if they were mortar, as if he were a potter treading the clay.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 - “Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘The potter has no hands’?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 - Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:10 - Then my enemy will see it and will be covered with shame, she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her downfall; even now she will be trampled underfoot like mire in the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 - Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defenses! Work the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork!

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 - Tyre has built herself a stronghold; she has 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[fn] will be like warriors in battle trampling their enemy into the mud of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the enemy horsemen to shame.
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