Strong's Greek · G4081

G4081 pēlós

πηλός

clay

When pēlós is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

clay

Derivation

perhaps a primary word;

Appears 6 times in Scripture

John 9:14

Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.

Romans 9:21

Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

John 9:6

When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.

John 9:11

He answered, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight.”

John 9:15

So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”

When pēlós is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what pēlós means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like John 9:14 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

How weighing a word works

Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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