Bible Encyclopedia: Mud

Jump to: Webster's • Concordance • Thesaurus • Greek • Hebrew • Library • Subtopics • Terms

Greek

1004. borboros -- mud, filth
... mud, filth. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: borboros Phonetic Spelling:
(bor'-bor-os) Short Definition: mud, mire, filth Definition: mud, mire ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1004.htm - 6k

4081. pelos -- clay
... pelos. 4082 . clay. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: pelos Phonetic
Spelling: (pay-los') Short Definition: clay, mud Definition: clay, mud. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4081.htm - 6k

3435. moluno -- to stain, defile
... spiritually besmirched (soiled). 3435 (literally "besmear with mud") is used
of sin smearing a person with its spiritual . For the antonym ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3435.htm - 7k

Strong's Hebrew

2916. tit -- mud, mire, clay
... 2915, 2916. tit. 2917 . mud, mire, clay. Transliteration: tit Phonetic Spelling:
(teet) Short Definition: mire. Word Origin of uncertain ...
/hebrew/2916.htm - 6k

2563a. chomer -- cement, mortar, clay
... Word Origin from chamar Definition cement, mortar, clay NASB Word Usage clay (12),
mire (1), mortar (4), mud (1). 2563, 2563a. chomer. 2563b . ...
/hebrew/2563a.htm - 5k

1206. bots -- mire
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition mire NASB Word Usage mire (1). mire.
Probably the same as buwts; mud (as whitish clay) -- mire. see HEBREW buwts. ...
/hebrew/1206.htm - 5k

5430. seon -- sandal, boot (of a soldier)
... battle. From ca'an; perhaps a military boot (as a protection from mud -- battle.
see HEBREW ca'an. 5429, 5430. seon. 5431 . Strong's Numbers.
/hebrew/5430.htm - 6k

4688. metsolah -- depth, deep
... Or mtsolah {mets-o-law'}; also mtsuwlah {mets-oo-law'}; or mtsulah {mets-oo-law'};
from the same as tsuwlah; a deep place (of water or mud) -- bottom, deep ...
/hebrew/4688.htm - 6k

7516. rephesh -- mire
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition mire NASB Word Usage refuse (1). mire.
From raphas; mud (as roiled) -- mire. see HEBREW raphas. 7515, 7516. ...
/hebrew/7516.htm - 5k

6083. aphar -- dry earth, dust
... From aphar; dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud -- ashes, dust,
earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish. see HEBREW aphar. 6082, 6083. ...
/hebrew/6083.htm - 6k

3121. yaven -- mire
... mire, miry. From the same as yayin; properly, dregs (as effervescing); hence, mud --
mire, miry. see HEBREW yayin. 3120, 3121. yaven. 3122 . Strong's Numbers
/hebrew/3121.htm - 6k

Library

Wesley Covered with Mud
... Chapter 14. Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents;
Wesley's Opinion of Mary Queen of Scots Wesley Covered with Mud. ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/wesley covered with mud.htm

In Christ and in Ephesus
... Out of that obnoxious mud of iniquity were growing the pure white lilies of Christian
character. That is the glory of Christianity and of Christ. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/naylor/heart talks/talk thirty-four in christ and.htm

Ep. Ii.
... I do not like being joked about Tiberina and its mud and its winters, O my friend,
who are so free from mud, and who walk on tiptoe, and trample on the plains. ...
/.../cyril/select letters of saint gregory nazianzen/ep ii.htm

Explaining the Divine Life.
... While Bessie and Nora were playing near it one day, Bessie fell down in some mud. ...
When the teacher turned, she saw, not mud, but ugly ink-spots. ...
/.../byrum/the value of a praying mother/chapter xvi explaining the divine.htm

On Earthly Things
... The mud is the gluttony of sinners; in the psalm: tear me from the mud that I not
take root; the same in another part of John: he made mud and daubed my eyes. ...
/.../eucherius/the formulae of st eucherius of lyons/iii on earthly things.htm

Xenophanes; his Scepticism; his Notions of God and Nature ...
... And he says that these were generated when all things originally were embedded in
mud, and that an impression of them was dried in the mud, but that all men ...
/.../the refutation of all heresies/chapter xii xenophanes his scepticism his.htm

God's Care Over Me
... There had been a heavy rainfall, and in front of the blacksmith shop at the edge
of town was a large mud-puddle in which a hog was wallowing as we came up. ...
/.../cole/trials and triumphs of faith/chapter xvi gods care over.htm

Whether Plain Water is Necessary for Baptism?
... for Baptism: unless perhaps such a small quantity of water be mixed artificially
with a body that the compound is something other than water; thus mud is earth ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether plain water is necessary.htm

How Holy Love Returning into the Soul, Brings Back to Life all the ...
... When Nabuzardan destroyed Jerusalem, and Israel was led into captivity, the holy
fire of the altar was hidden in a well, where it was turned into mud, but this ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xii how holy love.htm

Of the Superstitions of the Jews, and their Hatred against Jesus.
... themselves in foul lusts, as the sow, which wallows in the mire; [731] of that they
do not serve earthly images, and thus defile themselves with mud: for they ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xvii of the superstitions of.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.

2. (v. t.) To bury in mud.

3. (v. t.) To make muddy or turbid.

Thesaurus

Mud (15 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
2. (vt) To bury in mud. ... Multi-Version Concordance Mud (15 Occurrences). ...
/m/mud.htm - 10k

Muddy (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (superl.) Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or
path; muddy boots. 2. (superl.) Turbid with mud; as, muddy water. ...
/m/muddy.htm - 7k

Mire (21 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) An ant. 2. (n.) Deep mud; wet, spongy earth. 3. (vt) To cause or permit
to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon. ...
/m/mire.htm - 13k

Clay (50 Occurrences)
... CLAY. kla (chomer, chacaph, TiT, meleT, `abhi, ma`abheh, abhTiT; pelos, "wet clay,"
"mud"): True clay, which is a highly aluminous soil, is found in certain ...
/c/clay.htm - 25k

Build (242 Occurrences)
... In localities where stone was not available, mud bricks were used, and their
perishable nature being realized, stone slab facing came into use. ...
/b/build.htm - 45k

Applied (22 Occurrences)
... (DBY). John 9:6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the
saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud, (See NAS). ...
/a/applied.htm - 13k

Anointed (132 Occurrences)
... (WEY YLT). John 9:6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with
the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud, (WEB KJV ASV WBS RSV). ...
/a/anointed.htm - 41k

Building (249 Occurrences)
... In localities where stone was not available, mud bricks were used, and their
perishable nature being realized, stone slab facing came into use. ...
/b/building.htm - 47k

Garden (68 Occurrences)
... compare 2 Kings 21:18 Esther 1:5; Esther 7:7, 8 Nehemiah 3:15 2 Kings 25:4; Jeremiah
39:4; Jeremiah 52:7). They are enclosed with walls of mud blocks, as in ...
/g/garden.htm - 38k

Washed (113 Occurrences)
... John 9:11 He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said
to me,'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went away and washed, and I ...
/w/washed.htm - 37k

Bible Concordance

Mud (15 Occurrences)

John 9:6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud,
(WEB DBY NIV)

John 9:11 He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me,'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went away and washed, and I received sight."
(WEB DBY NIV)

John 9:14 It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.
(WEB DBY NIV)

John 9:15 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."
(WEB DBY NIV)

2 Peter 2:22 But that word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog has turned back to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to her rolling in mud.
(DBY NIV)

2 Samuel 22:43 Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
(See NIV)

Job 30:19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
(See NIV)

Job 41:30 His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
(WEB NIV)

Psalms 18:42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
(See NIV)

Psalms 40:2 And He doth cause me to come up From a pit of desolation -- from mire of mud, And He raiseth up on a rock my feet, He is establishing my steps.
(YLT NIV)

Isaiah 10:6 I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
(See NAS NIV)

Isaiah 57:20 But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste.
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 38:6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 38:22 behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Your familiar friends have set you on, and have prevailed over you: now that your feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back.
(See NIV)

Zechariah 10:5 They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.
(Root in WEB RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Mud

Related Terms

Muddy (3 Occurrences)

Mire (21 Occurrences)

Clay (50 Occurrences)

Build (242 Occurrences)

Applied (22 Occurrences)

Anointed (132 Occurrences)

Building (249 Occurrences)

Garden (68 Occurrences)

Washed (113 Occurrences)