Clay
חֲסַףStrong’s H2635chasaph (cha-saph)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chasaph is the Aramaic word usually translated “clay”, “clay the” and “clay of”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.”
Meaning
- Clay, potsherd
How it's translated
- clay 4
- clay the 2
- with clay of 2
- and clay the 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 7
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:34In contextThou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
- Daniel 2:35In contextThen was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Daniel 2:41In contextAnd whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
- Daniel 2:42In contextAnd as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
- Daniel 2:43In contextAnd whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
- Daniel 2:45In contextForasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
Aramaic dictionary
חֲסַף chasaph · clay
clay, potsherd
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “clay” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLAY, noun
- The name of certain substances which are mixtures of silex and alumin, sometimes with lime, magnesia, alkali and metallic oxyds.
- In poetry and in scripture, earth in general.
- In scripture, clay is used to express frailty, liableness to decay and destruction.“They that dwell in houses of clay” Job 4:19
All definitions and other forms of “clay”
CLAY, verb transitive
- To cover or manure with clay
- To purify and whiten with clay as sugar.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.