Heap
נֵדStrong’s H5067ned
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ned is the Hebrew word usually translated “heap” and “like heap”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.”
Meaning
- Heap
How it's translated
- a heap 5
- like heap 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 2
- Psalms 2
- Exodus 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 3:13And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the LORD of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
- Joshua 3:16That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
- Psalms 33:7He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
- Psalms 78:13He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
- Isaiah 17:11In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Hebrew dictionary
נֵד ned · heap
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.