miry
part of speech
adjective (miry, mirier, miriest — literary)
meaning for a pupil
(literary) Very muddy and boggy; full of mire (deep, sticky mud). tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Miry means full of mud. In the Psalms it describes a pit of danger and distress from which God lifts a person. Interpretation: Psalm 40 is read as thanks to God for rescue. In Daniel, iron mixed with clay is read as a sign that kingdoms will not hold together. In the primary lessons: A rare word in poems, old books and the Bible («He brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay», Psalm 40). In stories it describes swampy, muddy paths where feet and wheels get stuck.
examples
- But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given for salt. (Prophets EZK.47.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- He brought me up also out of the tumultuous pit, out of the miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock, He established my goings. (Writings PSA.40.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves by the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron doth not mingle with clay. (Writings DAN.2.43, JPS 1917) tree →
- The cart got stuck on the miry road. tree →
- We squelched through the miry field. tree →
- The psalm says God lifted him out of the miry clay. tree →
- The miry lane was hard to walk in after the rain. tree →
- The horses struggled through the miry ground. tree →
- Toad's car splashed through a miry puddle. tree →
- A Farmer was driving his wagon along a miry country road after a heavy rain. tree →
note
From «mire» (deep mud, a bog) + «-y». Pronounced MY-ree. Everyday words: muddy, boggy. «Stuck in the mire» can mean stuck in a difficult situation.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «miry» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.