Mire
יָוֵןStrong’s H3121yaven (ya-ven)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yaven is the Hebrew word usually translated “mire” and “mire of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.”
Meaning
- Mire, mirer
How it's translated
- the mire 1
- in mire of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
יָוֵן yaven · mire
mire, mirer
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mire” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MIRE, noun
Deep mud; earth so wet and soft as to yield to the feet and to wheels.
All definitions and other forms of “mire”
MIRE, verb transitive
To plunge and fix in mire; to set or stall in mud. We say, a horse, an ox or a carriage is mired, when it has sunk deep into mud and its progress is stopped.
- To soil or daub with mud or foul matter.
MIRE, verb intransitive
To sink in mud, or to sink so deep as to be unable to move forward.
MIRE, noun
An ant. [See Pismire.]
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.