ΠΗΛΟΣ, πηλος
PĒLOS, pēlos
Sounds Like: PAY-los
Translations: clay, mud, mire, a clay, a mud
From the root: ΠΗΛΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to clay or mud, often used in ancient contexts for pottery, building materials, or as a symbol of human frailty or the earth from which humans were formed. It is a singular noun.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4081 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Pseudo Clement of Rome
- Clement’s Second Letter — 8:2
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 11:3
- Job — 41:21
- Wisdom — 7:9
- Sirach — 36:13
- Isaiah — 29:16, 41:25, 45:9, 64:8
- Jeremiah — 18:6
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 14:7
- Micah — 7:10
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΗΛΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΗΛΙΝΩΝ — of earthen, of clay, of pottery
- ΠΗΛΟ — clay, mud, mire, a clay, a mud
- ΠΗΛΟΝ — clay, mud, mire, a clay, a mud, a mire
- ΠΗΛΟΥ — of clay, of mud, of dirt, clay, mud, dirt
- ΠΗΛΩ — to clay, with clay, in clay, by clay, to mud, with mud, in mud, by mud, clay, mud, a clay, a mud
- ΠΗΛΩΝ — of mud, of clay, of mire
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