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Mire [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Deep mud; earth so wet and soft as to yield to the feet and to wheels.

2. An ant. [ See Pismire .]

Mire [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To sink in mud, or to sink so deep as to be unable to move forward.

Mire [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To plunge and fix in mire; to set or stall in mud. We say, a horse, an ox or a carriage is mired, when it has sunk deep into mud and its progress is stopped.

2. To soil or daub with mud or foul matter.

Mire [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An ant.

2. Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.

Mire [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To stick in mire.

Mire [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.

2. To soil with mud or foul matter.

Mire-crow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The sea-crow or pewit gull, of the genus Larus.

Mired [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Mire

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14 KJV and 4 BSB verses contain “Mire”

2 Samuel 22:43

Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.

I ground them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them like mud in the streets.

Job 8:11

Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?

Job 30:19

He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Job 41:30

Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

Psalms 69:2

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.

Psalms 69:14

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.

Isaiah 10:6

I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

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

Isaiah 57:20

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.

Jeremiah 38:6

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

Jeremiah 38:22

And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.

All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ‘They misled you and overcame you— those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’

Micah 7:10

Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame— she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.

Zechariah 9:3

And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.

Zechariah 10:5

And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

They will be like mighty men in battle, trampling the enemy in the mire of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the horsemen to shame.

2 Peter 2:22

But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”