The word in Scripture

Clay in the Bible

The word clay appears 33 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Clay is soft earth shaped by the potter's hand. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What clay means in the Bible

Clay is soft earth shaped by the potter's hand.

Where the word clay appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word clay appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?”Job 4:19

“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.”Psalms 40:2

“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.”Isaiah 41:25

“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.”Isaiah 64:8

“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.”Jeremiah 18:6

“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;”Jeremiah 43:9

“And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.”John 9:14

“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”Romans 9:21