Words the Bible translates as clay
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- pēlosπηλόςwet earth worked into a paste: mud, or the soft clay a potter shapes
- ḥomerחֹמֶרclay: the soft, wet earth that is shaped by a potter, packed as mortar, or trodden as mire
+2 more meanings
- a heap: a piled-up mass of things gathered together
- a homer: the largest standard dry measure in ancient Israel, roughly ten times an ephah
- ostrakinosὀστράκινοςclaynot studied yet
- titטִיטmud: wet earth soft enough to sink into or to knead, from the sludge at the bottom of a pit to the clay a potter treads
- ḥasaphחֲסַףclay: cheap potter's earth, the breakable material of ordinary pottery set over against metal
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