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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #4596 - מְעִי
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
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- ruin, heap
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did not use
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1516) ig (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) ig (גהי GhY) AC: ? CO: Ruin AB: ?: A city or structure that has been demolished.
Nm) ig (גהי GhY) - Ruin: KJV (4): heap - Strongs: H5856 (עִי)
km) igm (מגהי MGhY) - Ruin: KJV (1): heap - Strongs: H4596 (מְעִי)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
noun [masculine] = עִי ruin-heap, but form very strange; ᵐ5 omits (ἔσται εἰς πτῶσιν); Gr proposes כְּעִי, Di לְעִי; < dittograph from מעיר Lag Semitic i. 29 Che Nö ZMG xxxii. 1878,401 Brd SS Buhl Gu in Kau Du.
מְעִי noun [masculine] ruin (si vera lectio); — וְהָֽיְתָה מְעִימַמָּלָה consecutive Isaiah 17:1 Damascus 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 Lag M. i. 236f. Dr 1 Samuel 20:30 Gerber90).
מְעִי m. a heap of ruins, ruins, i.q. עִי, for מַעֲוִי, from the root עָוָה, Isaiah 17:1. The prophet used an unaccustomed form in order to allude to the preceding מֵעִיר.
