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# miry

«miry» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Very muddy and boggy; full of mire (deep, sticky mud)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (miry, mirier, miriest — literary)

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and 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. In the primary 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

- 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://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miry/#x3)
- The cart got stuck on the miry road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miry/#x4)
- We squelched through the miry field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miry/#x5)
- The psalm says God lifted him out of the miry clay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miry/#x6)
- The miry lane was hard to walk in after the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miry/#x7)
- The horses struggled through the miry ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miry/#x8)
- Toad's car splashed through a miry puddle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miry/#x9)
- A Farmer was driving his wagon along a miry country road after a heavy rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miry/#x10)

### 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 the corpora

- [But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given for salt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1264/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «miry» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/miry/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.