πηλόςpēlós
clay
Greek (New Testament) · G4081
Meanings
1. clay, as used by a potter: Romans 9:21 (cf. Isaiah 29:16, and elsewhere).
2. = βόρβορος, wet clay, mud: John 9:6, John 9:11, John 9:14, John 9:15.
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- John 9:6 Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man’s eyes.
- John 9:11 He told them, “The man they call Jesus made mud and spread it over my eyes and told me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash yourself.’ So I went and washed, and now I can see!”
- John 9:14 because it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the mud and healed him.
- John 9:15 The Pharisees asked the man all about it. So he told them, “He put the mud over my eyes, and when I washed it away, I could see!”
- Romans 9:21 When a potter makes jars out of clay, doesn’t he have a right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into?
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.