עִי
ʻîy · H5856 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Thing
- Tell, moundMunicipal structures16 verses
Meanings
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ruin
Heap of stones remaining after the total destruction of a town; associated with hardship and poverty
ExamplesJob 30:24 “Yet does one in a heap of ruins not reach out with his hand, Or in his disaster does he not cry out for help?
Jeremiah 26:18 “Micah of Moresheth used to prophesy in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘This is what the LORD of armies has said: “Zion will be plowed like a field, And Jerusalem will become heaps of ruins, And the mountain of the house like the high places of a forest.”’
Micah 1:6 For I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the open country, Planting places for a vineyard. I will hurl her stones down into the valley, And lay bare her foundations.
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ruined person
Literally: ruin; hence: someone whose former state of well-being has been reversed due to misfortune and is now utterly dependent on the help of other people, and especially of God
ExamplesJob 30:24 “Yet does one in a heap of ruins not reach out with his hand, Or in his disaster does he not cry out for help?
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׂדֶהfield, countryside 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for 3
- בin/on/with 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- גַּל gal · H1530 · wave, heap (of stones)
- Hebrew synonym referring to a heap or pile, particularly of stones; both עִי and גַּל can denote stone heaps or mounds, though גַּל has broader semantic range including waves
- צִבֻּר tsibbur · H6652 · heap, pile
- Hebrew term for a heap or pile; semantically very close to עִי as both denote accumulated masses of material
- עָרֵם ʻârêm · H6194 · heap
- Hebrew noun denoting a heap or pile of material; both עִי and עֲרֵמָה refer to accumulated masses, though עֲרֵמָה may more commonly refer to grain heaps
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Constructions001003002
- עִי denotes a heap of ruins, the physical remains of a destroyed settlement, as in Micah 1:6's "Samaria a heap of ruins" and Jeremiah 26:18's "Jerusalem will become heaps of ruins."
- People001001003
- עִי (ʻîy, H5856) occurs only 5 times, with glosses such as "heaps of ruins," and shows no independent basis for the "People" domain. That classification is bundle-shared with בְּעִי (bᵉʻîy, H1164) in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5856. i עִי noun [masculine] ruin, heap of ruins; — ׳ע absolute Job 30:24, construct Mic…
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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