Pile
מְדוּרָהStrong’s H4071medurah (me-du-rah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Medurah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wood pile its” and “pile”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.”
Meaning
- Pile (of fuel), pyre, pile (of wood)
How it's translated
- wood pile its 1
- the pile 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מְדוּרָה medurah · pile
pile (of fuel), pyre, pile (of wood)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pile” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PILE, noun
[Latin pila.]
- A heap; a mass or collection of things in a roundish or elevated form; as a pile of stones; a pile of bricks; a pile of wood or timber; a pile of ruins.
- A collection of combustibles for burning a dead body; as a funeral pile
- A large building or mass of buildings; an edifice.
- A heap of balls or shot laid in horizontal courses, rising into a pyramidical form.
All definitions and other forms of “pile”
PILE, noun
[Latin palus.]
- A large stake or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building or other superstructure.
- One side of a coin; originally, a punch or puncheon used in stamping figures on coins, and containing the figures to be impressed.
- In heraldry, an ordinary in form of a point inverted or a stake sharpened.
PILE, noun
[Latin pilum.]
The head of an arrow.
PILE, noun
[Latin pilus.]
Properly, a hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton and the like; hence, the nap, the fine hairy substance of the surface of cloth.
PILE, verb transitive
To lay or throw into a heap; to collect many things into a mass; as, to pile wood or stones.
- To bring into an aggregate; to accumulate; as, to pile quotations or comments.
- To fill with something heaped.
- To fill above the brim or top.
- To break off the awns of threshed barley. [Local.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.