Strong's Hebrew: 2916. טִיט (tit) -- mud, mire, clay

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tit: mud, mire, clay

Original Word: טִיט
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: tit
Phonetic Spelling: (teet)
Short Definition: mire

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
mud, mire, clay
NASB Translation
clay (2), mire (7), mud (3).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

טִיט noun masculine mud, mire, clay (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian ‰î‰u, id., Flood Tablet iii, 10. 25) — absolute טִיט Job 41:22 6t.; construct id. Micah 7:10 5t.; —

1 mud, mire of streets (always in simile of contempt, ignominious treatment) חוּצוֺת ׳ט Micah 7:10; Psalm 18:43 = 2 Samuel 22:43; Zechariah 9:3; Zechariah 10:5; of Jeremiah's dungeon Jeremiah 38:6 (twice in verse); of mire in which crocodile lies Job 41:22; cast up by sea Isaiah 57:20 ("" רֶפֶשׁ); of a bog (figurative of distress) Psalm 69:15 and הַיָּוֵן ׳ט Psalm 40:30.

2 poetic of potter's clay ("" חֹמֶר) Isaiah 41:25, brick-clay ("" id.) Nahum 3:14.

טוֺטָפֹת, טֹטָפֹת see טטף.

Strong's

clay, dirt, mire

From an unused root meaning apparently to be sticky (rath. Perb. A demon. From tuw', through the idea of dirt to be swept away); mud or clay; figuratively, calamity -- clay, dirt, mire.

see HEBREW tuw'