KJV dictionary & concordance

clay

Meaning of “clay”

Earth or soil that can be moistened, shaped, trodden, formed, or hardened, especially by a potter or brickmaker.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828

33 occurrences30 verses11 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: 1 Kings 7:46

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Isaiah 29:16

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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?

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The 1611 reading & marginal notes

1611 witness · Isaiah 29:16 · retained source text

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.

Isaiah 41:25

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I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

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1611 witness · Isaiah 41:25 · retained source text

I haue raised vp one from the North, and he shall come: from the rising of the Sunne shall he call vpon my name, and he shall come vpon princes as vpon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

Isaiah 45:9

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Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

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1611 witness · Isaiah 45:9 · retained source text

Woe vnto him that striueth with his maker: Let the potsheard striue with the potsheards of the earth: shal the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy worke, he hath no hands?

1611 marginal noteIer.18.6. rom.9.20.

Isaiah 64:8

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But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

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1611 witness · Isaiah 64:8 · retained source text

But now, O LORD, thou art our father: we are the clay, and thou our potter, and we all are the worke of thine hand.

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Where “clay” appears

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1 Kings1 occurrence
1 verse 2 Chronicles1 occurrence
1 verse Job6 occurrences
6 verses Psalms1 occurrence
1 verse Isaiah4 occurrences
4 verses Jeremiah3 occurrences
3 verses Daniel9 occurrences
7 verses Nahum1 occurrence
1 verse Habakkuk1 occurrence
1 verse John5 occurrences
4 verses Romans1 occurrence
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Definition evidence

1 · KJV context and cross-references

1 Kings 7:46 Job 10:9 Job 33:6 Isaiah 41:25 Jeremiah 18:4 John 9:6 Job 27:16 Psalms 40:2 Isaiah 45:9 Daniel 2:33 Daniel 2:35 Daniel 2:43 Habakkuk 2:6 John 9:11 Romans 9:21

Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

Webster 1828

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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.

volume 1, leaf 403, column 3 (entry starts at OCR line 192)