Greek noun (masculine) · G4081
πηλός
pelospay-los'
clay, as used by a potter; - βόρβορος, wet clay, mud
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pēlós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4081is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4081
clay
The King James renders it: clay.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
pelos is rendered "clay, as used by a potter; - βόρβορος, wet clay, mud". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Five of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "clay, as used by a potter".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 9:6When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.
John 9:6πηλὸν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: clay, as used by a potter, and - βόρβορος, wet clay, mud.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| clay, as used by a potter | Tagged as
| WhereIsaiah 29:16You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay… |
| - βόρβορος, wet clay, mudJhn.9:6, 11 9:14-15 † (AS) | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereJohn 9:6When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πηλὸν5
- πηλοῦ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular5N-ASM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1N-GSM
John
five uses
When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.
- πηλὸνpelonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: clay
- πηλὸνpelonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: clay
He answered, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight.”
- πηλὸνpelonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: clay
Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.
- πηλὸνpelonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: clay
So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”
- πηλὸνpelonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: Clay
Romans
one use
Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
- πηλοῦpelounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: clay
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.