Senses
1. mud, clay — A soft, moist earth material that can be shaped or applied; all NT occurrences come from John 9 (the healing of the man born blind), where Jesus spits on the ground, makes mud/clay, and applies it to the blind man's eyes. The accusative S74709 ('mud' as direct object — 'he made mud,' 'he put mud') and genitive S74710 ('of clay' — attributive) describe the identical substance. Multilingual renderings reflect the wet-earth spectrum: spa 'lodo/barro' (mud/clay), hin 'मिट्टी' (miṭṭī — earth/clay), arb 'طين' (ṭīn — clay/mud), kor '진흙' (jinheuk — mud/clay), swa 'tope/udongo' (mud/soil). The apparent translation variation between 'mud' and 'clay' reflects target-language lexical choices rather than distinct Greek senses; πηλός denotes the single substance of moistened earth. 6×
AR["الطِّينِ","طين"]·ben["কাদা","মাটির"]·DE["Lehm"]·EN["Mud","clay","mud"]·FR["boue"]·heb["חֹמֶר","טִיט"]·HI["मिट्टी"]·ID["Tanah-liat","tanah-liat"]·IT["argilla","fango"]·jav["Lempung","lempung","lempung,"]·KO["진흙을","진흙의"]·PT["Lodo","barro,","lodo"]·RU["-того-же","Грязь","грязь","грязью"]·ES["Lodo","barro","lodo"]·SW["Tope","tope","udongo"]·TR["Çamur","çamur","çamurdan","çamuru"]·urd["مٹی","گارا"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
πηλός (Doric dialect πᾱλός Refs 5th c.BC+:— clay, earth, used by masons and potters, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. ἠχυρωμένος clay mixed with chaff for use as mortar, LXX; εὐώδεϊ πηλῷ, of earth on which wine has been poured, Refs 3rd c.AD+; Βρομιώδεα π. φύρησαν.. Χάριτες, of a drinkingcup, Refs 1st c.AD+: metaphorically, clay from which man was made: hence ὁ π. ὁ Προμηθεῖος, of man, Refs 5th c.BC+ __2 mud,…