I עִי
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| עִי | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | i |
| Strong's number | H5856 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | ruin |
| Occurrences | 5 in 5 verses |
| Most frequent in | Micah (2) |
I (Hebrew עִי, Strong's H5856) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “ruin”. It occurs 5 times in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
ruin, heap of ruins
Also means: be.i (בְּעִי "ruins" H1164)
Also means: be.i (בְּעִי "ruins" H1164)
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | heaps (3), heap (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | heap of rubble (3), rubble (1) |
Verses
Every verse with I, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Job
- Job 30:24Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
Psalms
- Psalm 79:1O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 26:18Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.“Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’
Micah
- Micah 1:6Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble in the open field, a planting area for a vineyard. I will pour her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.
- Micah 3:12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).