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Mud

טִיטStrong’s H2916

tit

Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Tit is the Hebrew word usually translated “like mud of”, “mud” and “from mud of”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.

“And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.”
Zechariah 9:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. Mud, clay, mire, damp dirtmud, mire · clay (poetical)
How it's translated
  • like mud of 4
  • mud 2
  • from mud of 1
  • from mud 1
  • clay 1
  • and mud 1
  • in the mud 1
  • in the clay 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 3
  • Isaiah 2
  • Zechariah 2
  • 2 Samuel 1
  • Job 1
  • Jeremiah 1

8 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

טִיט tit · mud

1) mud, clay, mire, damp dirt 1a) mud, mire 1b) clay (poetical) Aramaic equivalent: tin (טִין "common" H2917)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “mud” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MUD, noun

[Latin madeo.]

Moist and soft earth of any kind, such as is found in marshes and swamps, at the bottom or rivers and ponds, or in highways after rain.

    All definitions and other forms of “mud”

      MUD, verb transitive

      To bury in mud or slime.

      1. To make turbid or foul with dirt; to stir the sediment in liquors.

      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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.