H5856: עִי
ʻîy · pronounced ee · “ruin”
Definition
a ruin (as if overturned)
KJV translates it as: heap.
Word origin: from H5753 (עָוָה);
Extended definition
Also means: be.i (בְּעִי "ruins" H1164)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H5856 is translated
- heaps of ruins ×3
- a heap of ruins ×1
- the heap of ruins of ×1
Bible verses with H5856 (ʻîy)
ʻîy appears in 5 verses.
- Job 30:24
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
- Psalms 79:1
A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
- Jeremiah 26:18
Micah 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 1:6
Therefore 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.
- Micah 3:12
Therefore 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.