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Nave Topical Bible
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Thompson Chain Reference
• Clay
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American Tract Society
• Clay
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Thick Clay
• Clay
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Clay
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Clay
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• Clay
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• Clay
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Smith Bible Dictionary
• Clay
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Clay
Wilson's Bible Types
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Webster Dictionary
• Pipe Clay
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
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• Boulder Clay
• Bradford Clay
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Clajus (or Clay), Christian
• Clajus (or Clay), Johann (the Elder)
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Clay, Henry
The Jewish Encyclopedia
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• Trumbull, Henry Clay
Lexicons
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• חֹמֶר חֹמֶר, , חֹמֶר
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CLAY, n.

1. The name of certain substances which are mixtures of silex and alumin, sometimes with lime, magnesia, alkali and metallic oxyds. A species of earths which are firmly coherent, weighty, compact, and hard when dry, but stiff, viscid and ductile when moist, and smooth to the touch not readily diffusible in water, and when mixed, not readily subsiding in it. They contract by heat. Clays absorb water greedily, and become soft, but are so tenacious as to be molded into any shape, and hence they are the materials of bricks and various vessels, domestic and chimical.

2. In poetry and in scripture, earth in general.

3. In scripture, clay is used to express frailty, liableness to decay and destruction.

They that dwell in houses of clay. Job 4 .

CLAY,

1. To cover or manure with clay.

2. To purify and whiten with clay, as sugar.