H1164 H1164
ruin, heap of ruins (poetic term for devastation and desolation)
This masculine noun means ruin or heap of ruins, used poetically to describe devastation. Job 30:24 employs it in a difficult verse describing divine judgment or calamity. The term appears in prophetic oracles depicting cities reduced to rubble. The Aramaic form 'iyyim appears in some texts, showing lexical overlap between Hebrew and Aramaic vocabulary in poetic contexts.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Denotes a heap of ruins in Job 30:24 within a challenging poetic passage. The prepositional phrase 'against heap/ruin' appears in Job's lament about suffering and mortality. The Spanish 'contra ruina' and English 'against heap' preserve the stark imagery of destruction, though the verse's exact sense remains debated by interpreters. 1×
AR["فِي-خَرابٍ"]·ben["ধ্বংসস্তূপে"]·DE["[בעי]"]·EN["against-heap"]·FR["dans-בעי"]·heb["ב-עי"]·HI["खंडहरों-में"]·ID["dalam-reruntuhan"]·IT["in-contro-heap"]·jav["ing-reruntuhan"]·KO["폐허-에서"]·PT["contra-ruína"]·RU["на-развалину"]·ES["contra-ruina"]·SW["kwenye-magofu"]·TR["harabeye"]·urd["کھنڈر پر"]
Related Senses
H4421 1. war, battle, armed conflict (319×)H0341 1. enemy, adversary, foe (284×)H3898a 1. Nifal: to fight, wage war (167×)H2026 1. kill, slay (active) (146×)H2451 1. wisdom, discernment (146×)H5483b 1. horse (the animal) (138×)H0006 1. to perish, be destroyed (105×)H7843 1. Hifil: destroy, annihilate (83×)H2491a 1. slain, fatally pierced (74×)H6862c 1. adversary, enemy, foe (69×)H8045 1. destroy, exterminate (69×)G0615 1. kill, put to death (60×)H6571b 1. horseman, cavalryman (52×)H8077a 1. desolation, waste (abstract state) (52×)G4678 1. of wisdom (51×)G4717 1. crucify, fasten to a cross (46×)H2763a 1. utterly destroy (Hifil active) (44×)G0622 1. perish, be destroyed (intransitive) (41×)H0006 2. to destroy, annihilate (Piel) (38×)H8074 1. be desolate, lie waste (36×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† עִי n.[m.] ruin, heap of ruins;—ע׳ abs. Jb 30:24, cstr. Mi 1:6; pl. עִיִּין (Aramaic form) 3:12, but עִיִּים in the quotation Je 26:18, and ψ 79:1.