טִיטṭîyṭ

mud, mire, clay

Pronunciation: teet · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2916

Meanings

1. mud, mire (Micah 7:10; Psalms 18:43; 2 Samuel 22:43)

2. poetic of potter's clay (Isaiah 41:25; Nahum 3:14)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 13 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 22:43 I ground them as fine as the dust of the earth; I trampled them in the gutter like dirt.
  • Job 41:30 Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.
  • Psalms 18:42 I ground them as fine as dust in the wind. I swept them into the gutter like dirt.
  • Psalms 40:2 He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along.
  • Psalms 69:14 Rescue me from the mud; don’t let me sink any deeper! Save me from those who hate me, and pull me from these deep waters.
  • Isaiah 41:25 “But I have stirred up a leader who will approach from the north. From the east he will call on my name. I will give him victory over kings and princes. He will trample them as a potter treads on clay.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).