BDB5866
עִי noun [masculine] ruin, heap of ruins; — ׳ ע absolute Job 30:24, construct Mic 1:6 plural עִיִּין (Aramaic form) Mic 3:12, but עִיִּים in the quotation Jer 26:18, and Ps 79:1.
Strong's Lexicon
H5856
H5856 — עִי
Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | H5856 |
|---|---|
| Word: | עִי |
| Part of Speech: | noun masc |
| Etymology: | from H5753 |
| Language: | Hebrew |
| Occurrences: | 4 |
| Transliteration: | iy |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | `iy (ee) n-m. |
| Meaning: | 1. a ruin (as if overturned) |
| KJV Renderings: | heap. |
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Other Resources
Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke
Englishman's Hebrew Concordance
יעים (yah-geem’)
Exodus 27:3
- KJV: And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
- EHCC: and his shonels, and his basons,
Numbers 4:14
- KJV: And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers’ skins, and put to the staves of it.basons: or, bowls
- EHCC: the fleshhooks, and the shovels,
2 Kings 25:14
- KJV: And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
- EHCC: the pots, and the shovels,
2 Chronicles 4:11
- KJV: And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;basons: or, bowlsfinished: Heb. finished to make
- EHCC: Huram made the pots, and the shovels,
Jeremiah 52:18
- KJV: The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.shovels: or, instruments to remove the ashesbowls: or, basons
- EHCC: The caldrons also, and the shovels, (marg.