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# עִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5856

**ruin** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ruin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5856/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִי: ruin, heap of ruins [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5856/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] ruin, heap of ruins;—ע׳ abs. Jb 30:24, cstr. Mi 1:6; pl. עִיִּין (Aramaic form) 3:12, but עִיִּים in the quotation Je 26:18, and ψ 79:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: heaps of ruins (3); a heap of ruins (1); heap of ruins (1).

## In the verses

[Job 30:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.24/#tree)

אַ֣ךְ לֹא־בְ֭עִי יִשְׁלַח־יָ֑ד אִם־בְּ֝פִיד֗וֹ לָהֶ֥ן שֽׁוּעַ׃

*Word for word:* surely not on a.heap.of.ruins anyone.stretches.out a.hand or in disaster his \[belongs\].to.them a.cry.for.help

*JPS 1917:* Surely none shall put forth his hand to a ruinous heap, neither because of these things shall help come in one's calamity,

[Psalms 79:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.79.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.79.1/#tree)

מִזְמ֗וֹר לְאָ֫סָ֥ףאֱ‍ֽלֹהִ֡ים בָּ֤אוּ גוֹיִ֨ם ׀ בְּֽנַחֲלָתֶ֗ךָ טִ֭מְּאוּ אֶת־הֵיכַ֣ל קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ שָׂ֖מוּ אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֣ם לְעִיִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* a.psalm of Asaph O.God they.have.come \[the\].nations in inheritance your they.have.made.unclean (et) the.temple your.holiness your they.have.made (et) Jerusalem into heaps.of.ruins

*JPS 1917:* A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance; they have defiled Thy holy temple; they have made Jerusalem into heaps.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5856.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5856/): 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).