Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
clay
Usage: πηλός, οῦ, ἁ [in LXX chiefly for חֹמֶר, טִיט ] __1. clay, as used by a potter: Rom.9:21 (cf. Isa.29:16, al.). __2. - βόρβορος, wet clay, mud: Jhn.9:6, 11 9:14-15 † (AS)
Pelos means “clay” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4081 — middin in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4081 πηλός (pelos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pelos (pay-los') n. 1. clay [perhaps a primary word] It has 36 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include clay. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
pelos (pay-los') n. 1. clay [perhaps a primary word] KJV: clay
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clay
Usage: πηλός, οῦ, ἁ [in LXX chiefly for חֹמֶר, טִיט ] __1. clay, as used by a potter: Rom.9:21 (cf. Isa.29:16, al.). __2. - βόρβορος, wet clay, mud: Jhn.9:6, 11 9:14-15 † (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pelos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4081 (πηλός) appears 32 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
5 indexed usages in New Testament.
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
23 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And a man said to his neighbor, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
And they embittered their life by hard labors, in the clay and in brickmaking, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.
And I ground them as the dust of the earth, I beat them small as the mire of the streets.
8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Neither compared I unto her any precious stone, Because all gold in respect of her is as a little sand, And silver shall be counted as clay before her.
For the potter, tempering soft earth, Fashioneth every vessel with much labor for our service: Yea, of the same clay he maketh Both the vessels that serve for clean uses, And likewise also all such as serve to the contrary: But what is the use of either sort, the potter himself is the judge.
And employing his labors lewdly, he maketh a vain god of the same clay, Even he which a little before was made of earth himself, And within a little while after returneth to the same, out of the which he was taken, When his life which was lent him shall be demanded.
First 36 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4081.
And a man said to his neighbor, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
And they embittered their life by hard labors, in the clay and in brickmaking, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.
And I ground them as the dust of the earth, I beat them small as the mire of the streets.
But as for them that dwell in houses of clay, Of whom we also are formed of the same clay, He smites them like a moth.
Remember that thou hast made me as clay, And thou dost turn me again to earth.
Even if he should gather silver as earth, And prepare gold as clay;
And thou hast counted me as clay; My portion is in dust and ashes.
Thou art formed out of the clay as also I: We have been formed out of the same substance.
Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, And set it with the power of speech upon the earth?
His lair is formed of sharp points; And all the gold of the sea under him is as an immense quantity of clay.
I will grind them as the mud of the streets: And I will beat them small as dust before the wind.
And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, And from miry clay: And he set my feet on a rock, And ordered my goings aright.
Save me from the mire, that I stick not in it: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.
And I will make the region of Babylon desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell there, and it shall come to nothing: and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.
Shall ye not be counted as clay of the potter? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Thou didst not form me? or the work to the maker, Thou hast not made me wisely?
But I have raised up him that comes from the north, and him that comes from the rising of the sun: they shall be called by my name: let the princes come, and as potter’s clay, and as a potter treading clay, so shall ye be trodden down.
What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow the earth all day? shall the clay say to the potter, What art thou doing that thou dost not work, nor hast hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?
And now, O Lord, thou art our Father, and we are clay, all of us the work of thy hands.
Shall I not be able, O house of Israel, to do to you as this potter? behold, as the clay of the potter are ye in my hands.
And she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.
Draw thee water for a siege, and well secure thy strongholds: enter into the clay, and be thou trodden in the chaff, make the fortifications stronger than brick.
And Tyre built strongholds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.
And they shall be as warriors treading clay in the ways in war; and they shall set the battle in array, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame.
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Neither compared I unto her any precious stone, Because all gold in respect of her is as a little sand, And silver shall be counted as clay before her.
For the potter, tempering soft earth, Fashioneth every vessel with much labor for our service: Yea, of the same clay he maketh Both the vessels that serve for clean uses, And likewise also all such as serve to the contrary: But what is the use of either sort, the potter himself is the judge.
And employing his labors lewdly, he maketh a vain god of the same clay, Even he which a little before was made of earth himself, And within a little while after returneth to the same, out of the which he was taken, When his life which was lent him shall be demanded.
His heart is ashes, his hope is more vile than earth, And his life of less value than clay:
He fashioneth the clay with his arm, And boweth down his strength before his feet; He applieth himself to lead it over; And he is diligent to make clean the furnace:
And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: to Daniel, Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, Shadrach; and to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4081, grouped by book.
Pelos (Strong's G4081) is a Greek word most simply glossed "clay". pelos (pay-los') n. 1. clay [perhaps a primary word]
This page currently indexes 36 linked usages for Strong's G4081 across 16 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4081 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as clay. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 23 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4081, with linked reader references where each row is available.