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title: טִיט — mud · The Tanakh dictionary
description: טִיט (2916), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: mud. BDB 1906: n.m. mud, mire, clay. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# טִיט

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«טִיט» in the Tanakh dictionary: **mud** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 13 times · **Key:** 2916 · **BDB:** טִיט

### Glosses

mud (10); clay (2); the.mud (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «טִיט» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2916/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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