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# miry

adjective (miry, mirier, miriest — literary)

«miry» 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

(literary) Very muddy and boggy; full of mire (deep, sticky mud). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miry/#m1)

### In the lessons

A rare word in poems, old books and the Bible («He brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay», Psalm 40). In stories it describes swampy, muddy paths where feet and wheels get stuck.

### Examples

- The cart got stuck on the miry road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miry/#x1)
- We squelched through the miry field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miry/#x2)
- The psalm says God lifted him out of the miry clay. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miry/#x3)
- The miry lane was hard to walk in after the rain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miry/#x4)
- The horses struggled through the miry ground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miry/#x5)
- Toad's car splashed through a miry puddle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miry/#x6)
- A Farmer was driving his wagon along a miry country road after a heavy rain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miry/#x7)

### Note

From «mire» (deep mud, a bog) + «-y». Pronounced MY-ree. Everyday words: muddy, boggy. «Stuck in the mire» can mean stuck in a difficult situation.

## In Jewish tradition

Miry means full of mud. In the Psalms it describes a pit of danger and distress from which God lifts a person.

**Interpretation.** Psalm 40 is read as thanks to God for rescue. In Daniel, iron mixed with clay is read as a sign that kingdoms will not hold together.

### Examples

- But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given for salt. (Prophets EZK.47.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miry/#x1)
- He brought me up also out of the tumultuous pit, out of the miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock, He established my goings. (Writings PSA.40.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miry/#x2)
- And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves by the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron doth not mingle with clay. (Writings DAN.2.43, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miry/#x3)

### Note

From «mire» (deep mud, a bog) + «-y». Pronounced MY-ree. Everyday words: muddy, boggy. «Stuck in the mire» can mean stuck in a difficult situation.

## On Mova

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