The term "slimy" is not directly used in the Berean Standard Bible , but the concept can be associated with certain biblical descriptions and contexts that involve mud, mire, or substances that are slippery and unclean. In the Bible, such imagery often symbolizes moral corruption, instability, or the consequences of sin.

Biblical Imagery and Symbolism

1. Mire and Mud: The Bible frequently uses the imagery of mire and mud to depict a state of degradation or entrapment. In Psalm 40:2 , David speaks of being lifted out of the "miry clay," symbolizing deliverance from a place of despair and instability: "He lifted me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm."

2. Moral Corruption: The slimy nature of mire can also represent moral corruption or the defilement of sin. In Isaiah 57:20 , the wicked are compared to a troubled sea that cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and mud: "But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and muck."

3. Instability and Unreliability: The slippery nature of slimy substances can symbolize the instability and unreliability of those who do not follow God's ways. In Jeremiah 38:6 , the prophet Jeremiah is thrown into a cistern where he sinks into the mud, illustrating the peril and instability faced by those who are persecuted for righteousness: "So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud."

Theological Implications

The use of slimy imagery in the Bible serves as a powerful metaphor for the human condition apart from God. It highlights the consequences of sin, which can mire individuals in spiritual and moral filth, leading to a life of instability and separation from God. The deliverance from such a state, as depicted in the Psalms, underscores the transformative power of God's grace and redemption.

Practical Application

For believers, the imagery of slime and mire serves as a cautionary reminder to avoid the entanglements of sin and to seek the firm foundation that comes from a life rooted in Christ. It encourages a pursuit of holiness and a reliance on God's strength to overcome the slippery paths of temptation and moral compromise.(superl.) of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime.7388b. rir -- slimy juice, spittle
... rir. 7389 . slimy juice, spittle. Transliteration: rir Short Definition: saliva.
Word Origin from rir Definition slimy juice, spittle NASB Word Usage saliva ( ...
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Man's Bad Break.
... It is cunningly implied with a sticky, slimy cunning that, by not eating, that likeness
and knowledge would not come. ... Nothing has escaped the slimy contact. ...
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Outward Bound
... We looked eagerly day by day for more and more gulf- weed, hoping that.
'Slimy things would crawl with legs Upon that slimy sea,'. ...
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The Valleys --Experiences of Suffering and Sacrifice
... Only He can change the weaving into beauty, where the ugly slimy sin-threads have
come in. He can lead up again out of the depths, but only He. ...
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Jowett -- Apostolic Optimism
... the outer walls of convention and respectability, who has pushed his way into the
secret chambers and closets of life, who has dragged out the slimy sins which ...
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Ill-Temper
... and children of seraphic beauty; but in the corner of the canvas, or just at their
feet, some uncouth and loathsome form"a toad, a lizard, a slimy snail"to ...
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The Ugly Thread in the Weaving.
... Jews. One can easily see all the bitterness of their hate tracking its
slimy footprints out of that cleansed courtyard.[75]. The ...
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Two Ways of Rising
... So long as the water is kept warm, it floats onward; but when it cools, it condenses
and falls back again, perhaps into the same slimy pool. ...
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Songs from 'the Water-Babies'
... Dank and foul, dank and foul, By the smoky town in its murky cowl; Foul and dank,
foul and dank, By wharf and sewer and slimy bank; Darker and darker the ...
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As He is Going to Reply to the Slanders of his Opponents He ...
... basilisk; and if it has in any holes, ie, in the human heart, a lurking or resting
place, or has laid its eggs there, or left a trace of its slimy course, do ...
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A Threefold Disease and a Twofold Cure.
... Suppose that three men were to describe a snake. One of them fixes his attention
on its slimy coils, and describes its sinuous gliding movements. ...
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Slimy (1 Occurrence)
... slime. Multi-Version Concordance Slimy (1 Occurrence). Psalms 40:2 He brought
me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. ...
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Warp (9 Occurrences)
... 7. (vt) To let the tide or other water in upon (low-lying land), for the purpose
of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance. ...
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Sling (11 Occurrences)

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Soap (4 Occurrences)
... For washing the body, oil is first smeared over the skin and then qali rubbed
on and the whole slimy mixture rinsed off with water. ...
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Slime-pits (1 Occurrence)
Slime-pits. Slime, Slime-pits. Slimy . Multi-Version Concordance Slime-pits
(1 Occurrence). ... (WBS). Slime, Slime-pits. Slimy . Reference Bible.
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Potter (14 Occurrences)
... When the lumps have softened they are stirred in the water until all have
disintegrated and a thin slimy mud or "slip" has been formed. ...
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Pottery (11 Occurrences)
... When the lumps have softened they are stirred in the water until all have
disintegrated and a thin slimy mud or "slip" has been formed. ...
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Plagues (28 Occurrences)
... the food in the ovens, frogs in the kneading troughs worked up with the flour; frogs
with their monotonous croak, frogs with their cold slimy skins, everywhere ...
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Jeremiah (141 Occurrences)
... But as he continued to preach submission to the people, those in authority cast
him into a slimy cistern, from which the pity of a courtier, Ebed-melech ...
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Egypt (596 Occurrences)
... the food in the ovens, frogs in the kneading troughs worked up with the flour; frogs
with their monotonous croak, frogs with their cold slimy skins, everywhere ...
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