Heap
מְעִיStrong’s H4596mei (me-i)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mei is the Hebrew word usually translated “ruin of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.”
Meaning
- Ruin, heap
How it's translated
- a ruin of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מְעִי mei · heap
ruin, heap
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “heap” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEAP, noun
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body so as to form an elevation; as a heap of earth or stones.
- A crowd; a throng; a cluster; applied to living persons.
- A mass of ruins.“Thou hast made of a city a heap” Isaiah 25:2
All definitions and other forms of “heap”
HEAP, verb transitive
- To throw or lay in a heap; to pile; as, to heap stones; often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal.
- To amass; to accumulate; to lay up; to collect in great quantity; with up; as, to heap up treasures.“Though the wicked heap up silver as the dust--” Job 27:16
- To add something else, in large quantities.
- To pile; to add till the mass takes a roundish form, or till it rises above the measure; as, to heap any thing in measuring.
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.