עֲרֵמָה
a.re.mah (H6194)
heap
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# Aremah (עֲרֵמָה): The Hebrew Word for Heap The Hebrew word *aremah* refers to a heap or pile—a gathering of items accumulated together. With eleven occurrences across the biblical text, this term appears with sufficient frequency to indicate it was a standard word in Hebrew vocabulary for describing accumulated or stacked materials. The relative rarity of *aremah* (appearing only eleven times) suggests it served a specific lexical function rather than being the most common term for heaps or piles in biblical Hebrew. This limited usage pattern indicates the word likely appeared in contexts where such imagery was particularly relevant—whether describing literal accumulations of physical objects or, potentially, metaphorical uses of the heap imagery. Without access to the specific contexts of these eleven occurrences, the exact range of applications remains constrained by the data provided. As a concrete, visual term, *aremah* would have been comprehensible to ancient Hebrew speakers as descriptive language for tangible material reality. The word's straightforward definition and modest frequency of use mark it as a functional vocabulary item rather than a theologically prominent or symbolically loaded term in biblical discourse.
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When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid down.
The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities of Judah, also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to Yahweh their God, and laid them in heaps.
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh and his people Israel.
Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.
He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”
In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.
Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
Come against her from the farthest border. Open her storehouses. Cast her up as heaps. Destroy her utterly. Let nothing of her be left.
Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.