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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #05856 - עִי

Transliteration

ʻîy

Phonetics

Root Word (Etymology)

from (H5753)

Parts of Speech

Noun Masculine

TWOT

1577d

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) ruin, heap of ruins

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (4)

Psalms 1

Jeremiah 1

Micah 2

NAS (8)

Job 2

Psalms 1

Jeremiah 1

Micah 4

HCS (5)

Job 1

Psalms 1

Jeremiah 1

Micah 2

BSB (4)

Psalms 1

Jeremiah 1

Micah 2

ESV (5)

Job 1

Psalms 1

Jeremiah 1

Micah 2

WEB (4)

Psalms 1

Jeremiah 1

Micah 2

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

1516) i g (גהי GhY) AC: ? CO: Ruin AB: ?: The pictograph g is a twisted rope. The i is a picture of a the hand meaning work. Combined these mean "twisted work".

A) i g (גהי GhY) AC: ? CO: Ruin AB: ?: A city or structure that has been demolished.

N^m) i g (גהי GhY) - Ruin: KJV (4): heap - Strongs: H5856 (עִי)

k^m) i g m (מגהי MGhY) - Ruin: KJV (1): heap - Strongs: H4596 (מְעִי)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

עִי noun [masculine] ruin, heap of ruins; — ׳ע absolute Job 30:24, construct Micah 1:6; plural עִיִּין (Aramaic form) Micah 3:12, but עִיִּים in the quotation Jeremiah 26:18, and Psalm 79:1.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

עִי (for עֱוִי, from the root עָוָה, to overturn, to destroy), pl. עִיִּים m.

(1) ruins, ruinous heaps, Micah 1:6; Jeremiah 26:18; Micah 3:12; Psalms 79:1 comp. מְעִי.

(2) עִיִּים Numbers 33:45, and more fully עִיִּי הָעֲבָרִים verse 44 Numbers 33:44, 21:11 (“the ruinous heaps of mount Abarim”), [Ije-abarim], a part of mount Abarim.

(3) עִיִּים [Iim], a town of the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:29.

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List of Word Forms

לְעִ֥י לְעִיִּֽים׃ לעי לעיים׃ עִיִּ֣ים עִיִּ֣ין עיים עיין ‘î·yîm ‘î·yîn ‘îyîm ‘îyîn iYim iYin lə‘î lə‘îyîm lə·‘î lə·‘î·yîm leI leiYim