noun · masculine
pēlos
Strong’sG4081
clay, mud
stem pēl-6 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
πηλός, οῦ, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for חֹמֶר, טִיט;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4081 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpay-los'
clay
Fromperhaps a primary word;
King Jamesclay.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(Doric dialect πᾱλός Refs 5th c.BC+:— clay, earth, used by masons and potters, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. ἠχυρωμένος clay mixed with chaff for use as mortar, LXX; εὐώδεϊ πηλῷ, of earth on which wine has been poured, Refs 3rd c.AD+; Βρομιώδεα π. φύρησαν.. Χάριτες, of a drinkingcup, Refs 1st c.AD+: metaphorically, clay from which man was made: hence ὁ π. ὁ Προμηθεῖος, of man, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 mud, mire, Refs 5th c.BC+; κάσις πηλοῦ ξύνουρος, i. e. dust, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II poetical, thick or muddy wine, lees, Refs 5th c.BC+; of wine spilt on the floor, Refs 1st c.AD+; compare Πηλεύς near the end
III metaphorically, dolt, blockhead, Comedy texts Adesp.Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | pēlos | pēlois |
| object accusative | pēlon5×πηλὸν | pēloin |
| direct address vocative | pēlor | pēloir |
| of, belonging to genitive | pēlou1×πηλοῦ | pēloiu |
| to, for dative | pēlo | pēloi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
pēlo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
pēlon“mud”objectaccusative singular5×
John 9:6houteim legarantos ptuata chamai kai poiata pēlon ek teu ptusmeu, kai epichriata autou …… spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s …
John 9:6“clay”… teu ptusmeu, kai epichriata autou ton pēlon epi toin ofthalmoin,… He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.
John 9:11… ekeinos; Tos anthrōpos tos legorōntos Iēsus pēlon poiata kai epichriata mu toin ofthalmoin …… man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He …
John 9:14… de sabbatem en ha hēmera ton pēlon poiata tos Iēsus kai anoigata autou …… on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a …
John 9:15… pōs anablepata. tos de legata autoi; Pēlon epitithata mu epi toin ofthalmoin, kai …… sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed …
pēlou“clay”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Romans 9:21… ouk echatō exousian tos keramevos tou pēlou ek teu auteu furameu poiara hem …… make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and …