'Clay' in the Bible

and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every kind of service in the field; all their service in which they have served is with rigour.

A clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it must be scoured and rinsed with water.

If any of them falls into any clay pot, everything in it will become unclean; you must break it.

Then the priest will order that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot.

and the house he doth cause to be scraped within round about, and they have poured out the clay which they have scraped off, at the outside of the city, at an unclean place;

and they have taken other stones, and brought them in unto the place of the stones, and other clay he taketh and hath daubed the house.

And he hath broken down the house, its stones, and its wood, and all the clay of the house, and he hath brought them forth unto the outside of the city, unto an unclean place.

and he is to slaughter one of the birds over a clay pot containing fresh water.

Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, while any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.

Then the priest is to take holy water in a clay bowl, and take some of the dust from the tabernacle floor and put it in the water.

They brought along bedding, bowls, clay basins, wheat, barley, flour, roasted grains, beans, peas,

I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay in the streets.

In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.

In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

“But his body [lamenting its decay] grieves in pain over it,And his soul mourns over [the loss of] himself.”

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

Under him are sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire.

The words of Yahweh are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

I grind them as fine windblown dust; I beat them underfoot like clay in the streets.

My strength is dried up like baked clay;my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.You put me into the dust of death.

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

Before your clay pots are placed on a fire of burning thorns whether green or ablaze wrath will sweep them away like a storm.

For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.

A clay vessel plated with a thin veneer of silver that's what smooth lips with a wicked heart are.

I will send him against a godless nation;I will command him to goagainst a people destined for My rage,to take spoils, to plunder,and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern."

I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

This is what the Lord says: “Go, buy a potter’s clay jar. Take some of the elders of the people and some of the leading priests

This man, Jeconiah, will be like a broken pot someone threw away. He will be like a clay vessel that no one wants. Why will he and his children be forced into exile? Why will they be thrown out into a country they know nothing about?

"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Take these deeds both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed and put them in a clay pot so they'll last for a long time.

Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;

ב BetZion’s precious people—once worth their weight in pure gold—how they are regarded as clay jars,the work of a potter’s hands!

His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

Thou hast proceeded through the sea with Thy horses -- the clay of many waters.

When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,

He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.

And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us.

In a large house there are not only utensils made of gold and silver, but also those made of wood and clay. Some are for special use, while others are for ordinary use.

"He will rule them with an iron scepter; shattering them like clay pots.'