Lexical Summary mei: perhaps ruin heap Original Word: מְעִיTransliteration: mei Phonetic Spelling: (meh-ee') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: perhaps ruin heap Meaning: a pile of rubbish, a ruin Strong's Concordance heap From avah; a pile of rubbish (as contorted), i.e. A ruin (compare iy) -- heap. see HEBREW avah see HEBREW iy Brown-Driver-Briggs H4596. mei מְעִי only in מ ׳והיתה מַמָּלָה Isaiah 17:1; according to AV RV Thes and others noun [masculine] = עִי ruin-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. מְעִי noun [masculine] ruin (si vera lectio); — מַמָּלָה מְעִי וְהָֽיְתָה consecutive Isaiah 17:1 Damascus shall become a ruinous heap (but strike out ᵐ5 ׳מ 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. Dr1 Samuel 20:30 Gerber90). |
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