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# עֲרֵמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6194

**heap** — used 11 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

heap [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6194/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲרֵמָה: n.f. heap [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6194/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. heap;—abs. ע׳ Ru 3:7; cstr. עֲרֵמַת Hg 2:16; Ct 7:3; pl. עֲרֵמוֹת abs. Ne 13:15 +, cstr. 3:34; abs. עֲרֵמִים Je 50:26;—heap of rubbish (עָפָר) Ne 3:34; ע׳ = ruin-heap Je 50:26; = grain-heap (of threshed grain, عَرَمَةٌ unthreshed, according to Wetzstl.c.), Hg 2:16; Ne 13:15; Ru 3:7; ע׳ חִטִּים Ct 7:3; of grain and fruit 2 Ch 31:6(×2), 7, 8, 9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: heaps (7); \[is\] a heap (1); a heap (1).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 31:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.31.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.31.9/#tree)

וַיִּדְרֹ֣שׁ יְחִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ עַל־הַכֹּֽהֲנִ֛ים וְהַלְוִיִּ֖ם עַל־הָעֲרֵמֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and he.enquired Hezekiah to the priests and the Levites on the heaps

*JPS 1917:* Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

[2 Chronicles 31:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.31.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.31.7/#tree)

בַּחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ הַשְּׁלִשִׁ֔י הֵחֵ֥לּוּ הָעֲרֵמ֖וֹת לְיִסּ֑וֹד וּבַחֹ֥דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖י כִּלּֽוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* in the month (the) third they.began the heaps to found and in the month (the) seventh they.finished

*JPS 1917:* In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6194.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6194/): 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).