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mire

Meaning of “mire”

Wet, muddy ground; mud or filth.

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15 occurrences14 verses8 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: 2 Samuel 22:43

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2 Samuel 22:43
Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 2 Samuel 22:43 · retained source text

Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth: I did stampe them as the myre of the street, and did spread them abroad.

Job 8:11
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 8:11 · retained source text

Can the rush growe vp without myre? can the flag growe without water?

Job 30:19
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Job 30:19 · retained source text

He hath cast mee into the myre, and I am become like dust and ashes.

Job 41:30
Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 41:30 · retained source text

Sharpe stones are vnder him: he spreadeth sharpe pointed things vpon the mire.

1611 marginal noteHeb. sharpe pieces, of the potsherd.

Psalms 69:2
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 69:2 · retained source text

I sinke in deepe mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deepe waters, where the flouds ouerflow me.

1611 marginal noteHeb. the myre of depth.

1611 marginal noteHeb. depth of waters.

Psalms 69:14
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 69:14 · retained source text

Deliuer me out of the mire, and let me not sinke: let me bee deliuered from them that hate me, and out of the deepe waters.

Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 10:6 · retained source text

I will send him against an hypocriticall nation, and against the people of my wrath will I giue him a charge to take the spoile, and to take the praye, and to tread them downe like the mire of the streets.

1611 marginal noteHeb. to lay them a treading.

Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 57:20 · retained source text

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast vp myre and dirt.

Jeremiah 38:6
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 38:6 · retained source text

Then tooke they Ieremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the sonne of Hammelech that was in the court of the prison: and they let downe Ieremiah with cords: and in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Ieremiah sunke in the mire.

1611 marginal noteOr, of the king.

Jeremiah 38:22
And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 38:22 · retained source text

And behold, all the women that are left in the king of Iudahs house, shalbe brought forth to the king of Babylons Princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends haue set thee on, and haue preuailed against thee: thy feet are sunke in the mire, and they are turned away backe.

1611 marginal noteHebr. men of thy peace.

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