arem · heap

What it means

arem (עָרֵם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “heap”.

Especially of grain already threshed.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Grain or rubble piled up.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• heaps ×8
• heap ×3

Where it appears

• Ruth×1
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Nehemiah×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Haggai×1

• Ruth 3:7

  Boaz ate and drank, and his heart was glad, and he went to lie down at the end of the heap. Then she came quietly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.

• 2 Chronicles 31:6

  And the sons of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah, they too brought the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of the holy things consecrated to YHWH their Elohim, and they laid them in heaps upon heaps.

• 2 Chronicles 31:7

  In the third month they began to lay the base of the heaps, and in the seventh month they finished.

• 2 Chronicles 31:8

  Hezekiah and the officials came and saw the heaps, and they blessed YHWH and his people Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 31:9

  Hezekiah asked the priests and the Levites about the heaps.

• Nehemiah 4:2

  And he spoke before his brothers and the troops of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they leave them alone? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubble, when they are burned?”

• Nehemiah 13:15

  In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in the heaps and loading them on the donkeys, and also wine, grapes, and figs, and every kind of burden, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath; and I testified on the day they sold provisions.

• Song of Songs 7:2

  Your navel is a rounded bowl; let it not lack mixed wine; your belly is a heap of wheat fenced with lilies.

• Jeremiah 50:26

  Come against her from the farthest end; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps, and devote her to destruction; let there be no remnant of her.

• Haggai 2:16

  since they were so: one came to a heap of twenty, and there were ten; one came to the wine vat to draw off fifty measures, and there were twenty.

And 1 more times.