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# מְעִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4596

**ruin-heap** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ruin-heap [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4596/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְעִי²: ruin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4596/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. \[m.\] ruin (si vera l.);—וְהָֽיְתָה מְעִי מַפָּלָה consec. Is 17:1 Damascus shall become a ruinous heap (but del. מ׳ 𝔊 Lag Che SS Buhl).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a ruin (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 17:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.1/#tree)

מַשָּׂ֖א דַּמָּ֑שֶׂק הִנֵּ֤ה דַמֶּ֙שֶׂק֙ מוּסָ֣ר מֵעִ֔יר וְהָיְתָ֖ה מְעִ֥י מַפָּלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.oracle of.Damascus there! Damascus \[is\].about.to.be.removed from a.city and it.will.be a.ruin of.a.ruin

*JPS 1917:* The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4596.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4596/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).