Bible dictionaries
Mire
What Bible dictionaries say about “Mire”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Mire - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
MIRE, n. Deep mud; earth so wet and soft as to yield to the feet and to wheels.
MIRE, v.t. 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, v.i. To sink in mud, or to sink so deep as to be unable to move forward.
MIRE, n. An ant. [See Pismire.]
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
mir.
See CHALKSTONE; CLAY; MARSH.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915