Heap
עֲרֵמָהStrong’s H6194aremah (a-re-mah)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aremah is the Hebrew word usually translated “heaps”, “heap of” and “heap”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.”
Meaning
- Heap, pile
How it's translated
- heaps 3
- the heaps 3
- a heap of 2
- the heap 1
- from heaps of 1
- heaps of grain 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Nehemiah 2
- Ruth 1
- Song of Solomon 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Haggai 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 31:6And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.
- 2 Chronicles 31:7In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
- 2 Chronicles 31:8And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 31:9Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
- Nehemiah 4:2And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
- Nehemiah 13:15In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
Hebrew dictionary
עֲרֵמָה aremah · heap
heap, pile
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.