Mire
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [1]
Job 30:19 (b) Job's sorrow, trouble, and poverty are compared to mud which is so unpleasant and so hard to get out from when one is submerged in it.
Psalm 69:2,14 (b) This is a type of the deep trouble, the great sorrow, and the anguish of heart of the Lord Jesus Christ as He went through Gethsemane and Calvary.
Isaiah 57:20 (a) The filthiness in many human lives is compared to the dirt cast up constantly by the restless sea.
Jeremiah 38:22 (b) This is a type of the great difficulties into which Israel was plunged because of her iniquity and sin.
2 Peter 2:22 (b) Here we see illustrated what GOD thinks of a life of worldliness. The pig represents an unsaved person who has cleaned up his life, perhaps has joined the church, and then has turned back into living his own way and enjoys the pleasures of sin.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
"mud, filth," occurs in 2—Peter 2:22 . In the Sept., Jeremiah 38:6 (twice), of the "mire" in the dungeon into which Jeremiah was cast.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( n.) An ant.
(2): ( v. t.) To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
(3): ( v. t.) To soil with mud or foul matter.
(4): ( v. i.) To stick in mire.
(5): ( n.) Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.
King James Dictionary [4]
MIRE, n. Deep mud earth so wet and soft as to yield to the feet and to wheels.
MIRE, 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.
1. To soil or daub with mud or foul matter.
MIRE, To sink in mud, or to sink so deep as to be unable to move forward.
MIRE, n. An ant. See Pismire.
