Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #4596 - מְעִי mei (perhaps ruin heap)


Original Word:מְעִי
Transliteration: mei
Definition:perhaps ruin heap
Part of Speech:Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:(meh-ee')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

heap

From avah; a pile of rubbish (as contorted), i.e. A ruin (compare iy) -- heap.

see HEBREW avah

see HEBREW iy


Englishman's Concordance

1) ruin, heap
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H5753
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1577e

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מְעִי only in מַמָּלָה׳והיתה מIsaiah 17:1; according to AV RV Thes and others

noun [masculine]=עִיruin-heap, but form very strange; ᵐ5 omits (ἔσται εἰς πτῶσιν); Gr proposes כְּעִי, Di לְעִי; < dittograph from מעיר LagSemitic i. 29 Che NöZMG xxxii. 1878, 401 Brd SS Buhl Guin Kau Du.

מְעִיnoun [masculine]ruin (si vera lectio); — וְהָֽיְתָה מְעִימַמָּלָה consecutive Isaiah 17:1Damascus shall become a ruinous heap (but strike out ׳מᵐ5 Lag Che SS Buhl). cf

II. עוה (√ of following, compare Arabic err from the way, Ethiopic : err; distinct from I. עוה, compare LagM. i. 236 f. Dr1Samuel 20:30 Gerber90).


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 4596. מְעִי (mei) — 1 Occurrence

Isaiah 17:1
HEB:מֵעִ֔יר וְהָיְתָ֖ה מְעִ֥י מַפָּלָֽה׃
NAS: And will become a fallen ruin.
KJV: and it shall be a ruinous heap.
INT: A city and will become ruin A fallen

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