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# טִיט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2916

**mud** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

mud [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2916/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טִיט: n.m. mud, mire, clay [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2916/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. mud, mire, clay (NH id.; Assyrian ṭîṭu, id., Flood Tabl. iii, 10. 25)—abs. טִיט Jb 41:22 + 6 times; cstr. id. Mi 7:10 + 5 times;— mud, mire of streets (always in sim. of contempt, ignominious treatment) ט׳ חוּצוֹת Mi 7:10 ψ 18:43 = 2 S 22:43, Zc 9:3; 10:5; of Jeremiah’s dungeon Je 38:6(×2); of mire in which crocodile lies Jb 41:22; cast up by sea Is 57:20 (‖ רֶפֶשׁ); of a bog (fig. of distress) ψ 69:15 and ט׳ הַיָּוֵן ψ 40:3. poet. of potter’s clay (‖ חֹמֶר) Is 41:25, brick-clay (‖ id.) Na 3:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: mud (10); clay (2); the mud (1).

## In the verses

[Job 41:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.22/#tree)

תַּ֭חְתָּיו חַדּ֣וּדֵי חָ֑רֶשׂ יִרְפַּ֖ד חָר֣וּץ עֲלֵי־טִֽיט׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].under it sharp.points of.potsherd\[s\] it.spreads.out a.threshing.sledge on mud

*JPS 1917:* Sharpest potsherds are under him; he spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.

[2 Samuel 22:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.43/#tree)

וְאֶשְׁחָקֵ֖ם כַּעֲפַר־אָ֑רֶץ כְּטִיט־חוּצ֥וֹת אֲדִקֵּ֖ם אֶרְקָעֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and I beat.them.fine like.\[the\] dust of.\[the\].earth like.\[the\] mud of.\[the\].streets I pulverized.them I beat.them.out

*JPS 1917:* Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the streets, and did tread them down.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2916.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2916/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).