Mire
רֶ֫פֶשׁStrong’s H7516rephesh (re-phesh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Rephesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “mire”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.”
Meaning
- Mire, mud
How it's translated
- mire 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
רֶ֫פֶשׁ rephesh · mire
mire, mud
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.