KJV dictionary & concordance
Earth or soil that can be moistened, shaped, trodden, formed, or hardened, especially by a potter or brickmaker.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: 1 Kings 7:46
Complete exact-word concordance
In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
In the plaine of Iordane did the king cast them in the clay ground, betweene Succoth and Zarthan.
1611 marginal noteHebr. in the thicknesse of the ground.
In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
In the plaine of Iordan did the King cast them, in the clay-ground, betweene Succoth and Zeredathah.
1611 marginal noteHeb. thicknesses of the ground.
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Howe much lesse on them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth.
1611 marginal note2.Cor. 5.1.
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Your remembrances are like vnto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
Though he heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay:
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
Behold, I am according to thy wish in Gods stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
1611 marginal noteHeb. according to thy mouth.
1611 marginal noteHeb. cut out of the clay.
1611 marginal noteCha. 9.35. and 23.20.
It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
It is turned as clay to the seale, and they stand as a garment.
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.
He brought me vp also out of an horrible pit, out of the mirie clay, and set my feete vpon a rock, and established my goings.
1611 marginal noteHeb. a pit of noise.
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
Surely your turning of things vpside downe shall be esteemed as the potters clay: for shall the worke say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed, say of him that framed it, He had no vnderstanding?
1611 marginal noteIsa.45.19.
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They contract by heat. […] Clays absorb water greedily, and become soft, but are so tenacious as to be molded into any shape, and hence they are the materials of bricks and various vessels, domestic and chimical.
