עִי
i · heap of ruins
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5856 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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i (עִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “heap of ruins”.
A heap of ruins, the rubble of what was torn down.
How to say it
i
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
- Pile of rubble from what was destroyed.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- heaps of ruins ×3
- heap of ruins ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 79:1
A psalm of Asaph. Elohim, nations have come into your inheritance; they have made unclean your holy temple; they have made Jerusalem into heaps of ruins.
- Jeremiah 26:18
“Micah the Morashtite was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he said to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house high places of a forest.’
- Micah 1:6
“And I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field, a place for planting a vineyard; and I will pour down into the valley her stones, and her foundations I will lay bare.
- Micah 3:12
Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house high places of a forest.