KJV dictionary & concordance
Full of mire; muddy, boggy, or covered with wet earth.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Psalms 40:2
Complete exact-word concordance
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.
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
But the myrie places thereof, and the marishes thereof, shall not be healed, they shall be giuen to salt.
1611 marginal noteOr, and that which shall not be healed.
And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
And whereas thou sawest the feete and toes, part of potters clay, and part of yron: the kingdome shalbe diuided, but there shalbe in it of the strength of the yron, forasmuch as thou sawest the yron mixt with myrie clay.
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
And whereas thou sawest yron mixt with myrie clay, they shall mingle themselues with the seede of men: but they shall not cleaue one to an other, euen as yron is not mixed with clay.
1611 marginal noteCald. this with this.
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Historical English dictionary sources
[from mire.] Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; as a miry road; a miry lane. 1. Consisting of mire.
