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# mire

noun (mire, mires); verb (mire, mires, mired, miring)

«mire» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Mire is deep, wet mud or soft ground that sucks at your feet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mire/#m1)
2. To mire is to get stuck in mud, or to be held back in trouble. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mire/#m2)

### In the lessons

in stories, a traveller or animal sinks into the soft ground and must be pulled out

### Examples

- The cart sank deep in the mire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mire/#x1)
- Our boots were thick with mire after the rain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mire/#x2)
- The horse was stuck fast in the mire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mire/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

Mire is deep mud. In the Bible it often stands for trouble, danger or being cast low.

**Interpretation.** Job's words about the mire are read as a picture of suffering, and also of how fragile human beings are.

### Examples

- Can the rush shoot up without mire? (Writings JOB.8.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mire/#x1)
- Sharpest potsherds are under him; he spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire. (Writings JOB.41.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mire/#x2)
- He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. (Writings JOB.30.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mire/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mire» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mire/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mire» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mire.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «mire» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mire/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mire» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/mire.html) on Mova free.