tit · mud, clay

What it means

tit (טִיט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mud, clay”.

The mire of the streets or of the bottom of a pit. Also the potter's clay.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Soft, wet earth that sticks and sinks when stepped on.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Micah×1
• Nahum×1
• Zechariah×2

• 2 Samuel 22:43

  I ground them like the dust of the earth; like the mud of the streets I crushed them, I stamped them down.

• Job 41:30

  Under it are points of potsherd; it spreads a threshing sledge on the mud.

• Psalms 18:42

  I ground them like dust before the wind; like the mud of the streets I flung them out.

• Psalms 40:2

  And he brought me up from the pit of tumult, from the mud of the mire, and set my feet upon a crag; he made firm my steps.

• Psalms 69:14

  Deliver me from the mud, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me and from the deep waters.

• Isaiah 41:25

  I have stirred up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun he will call on my name; and he will come upon officials as upon clay, and as the potter treads mud.

• Isaiah 57:20

  But the wicked are like the tossing sea, for it cannot be quiet, and its waters toss up mire and mud.

• Jeremiah 38:6

  So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchijah son of the king, which was in the court of the guard, and they let down Jeremiah with ropes. In the cistern there was no water, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

• Micah 7:10

  And my enemy will see, and shame will cover her, who said to me, “Where is YHWH your Elohim?” My eyes will look on her; now she will be for trampling like the mud of the streets.

• Nahum 3:14

  Draw water for the siege for yourself; strengthen your fortresses; go into the mud and tread the clay; take hold of the brick mold.

• Zechariah 9:3

  And Tyre built a bulwark for herself, and heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the mud of the streets.

• Zechariah 10:5

  And they will be like mighty men trampling in the mud of the streets in battle; and they will fight, for YHWH is with them, and they will put to shame the riders of horses.

And 1 more times.