טִיט
tit
mud
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# The Hebrew Word טִיט (tit): Mud The Hebrew word *tit* refers to mud, a substance formed from water and earth mixed together. This simple definition encompasses both literal mud found in natural settings and mud as a material used in ancient Near Eastern contexts. With thirteen occurrences across the biblical text, the word appears with sufficient frequency to reflect its practical importance in the world of ancient Israel and surrounding regions. The presence of *tit* in thirteen biblical passages suggests that mud held relevance across multiple contexts—whether describing literal muddy terrain, construction materials, or symbolic uses in narrative and prophetic literature. The word's recurrence indicates that biblical writers found this everyday substance worthy of mention, suggesting it was either practically significant to their audiences or carried meaning in specific literary or theological moments. Without access to the specific passages where *tit* appears, we can note that its modest frequency places it among moderately common descriptive terms rather than central theological vocabulary. As a concrete, material word rather than an abstract concept, *tit* represents the kind of everyday element that grounds biblical language in the physical world of ancient life. Its thirteen occurrences distributed throughout the biblical corpus indicate consistent, if not prominent, relevance to the text's worldview and descriptive vocabulary.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
13 total occurrences across the text
His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
Psalms 18:42Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
Psalms 40:2He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
Psalms 69:14Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Isaiah 41:25“I have raised up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name, and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
Isaiah 57:20But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.
Jeremiah 38:6Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
Jeremiah 38:6Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
Micah 7:10Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
Nahum 3:14Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
Zechariah 9:3Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
Zechariah 10:5They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.
2 Samuel 22:43Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.