Bible Dictionary: Rubble

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.

2. (n.) Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash.

3. (n.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.

4. (n.) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.

Strong's Hebrew

6194. aremah -- a heap
... Word Origin from aram Definition a heap NASB Word Usage heap (2), heap of grain
(1), heaps (5), rubble (1), sacks of grain (1). heap of corn, sheaf. (Jer. ...
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6083. aphar -- dry earth, dust
... Usage ashes (2), debris (2), dirt (1), dry soil (1), dust (91), dusty (1), earth
(5), ground (1), heap (2), loose earth (1), plaster (3), rubbish (1), rubble (1 ...
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Library

By, Through, Unto
... If you see a great wall in some palace, with slabs of polished marble for most of
its length, and here and there stretches of course rubble shoved in, you ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/by through unto.htm

Choosing the Tens
... Below in the still shadowy passages and interiors, speckled with fallen mortar,
lay chains, rubble of brick and chipped stone; splinters, flinders and odd ends ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter i choosing the tens.htm

Canaan
... But he leaped lightly down the ledge, crossed the belt of rubble, talus and desert
sand, and entered the now well-marked wagon road between the dark green ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xii canaan.htm

The Treasure Cave
... There he permitted the rubble to slide with a mixture of earth, like a natural
displacement, into the talus, of a similar nature, at the base of the cliff. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xx the treasure cave.htm

The Persecutions of the Apostolic Church, and Its Condition at the ...
... He added the sports of the circus, and assisted in person, sometimes driving a curricle,
and occasionally mixing with the rubble in his coachman's dress. ...
/.../killen/the ancient church/chapter xi the persecutions of.htm

The Transformation of Rome from a Pagan into a Christian City.
... 1887. Like the one at Tusculum, it is partly hollowed out of the rocky side
of the mountain, partly built of stone and rubble work. ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter i the transformation of.htm

The Return to Capernaum - Concerning the Forgiveness of Sins - the ...
... The roof itself, which had hard beaten earth or rubble underneath it, was paved
with brick, stone, or any other hard substance, and surrounded by a balustrade ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xvi the return to.htm

A Nation's Struggle for a Home and Freedom.
... early Hebrew tradition. Its foundation is a wall of rubble sixteen feet
high and six to eight feet thick, sloping inward. On the ...
/.../kent/the making of a nation/study xii a nations struggle.htm

Under Ban of the Ritual
... white stone. About their bases were quantities of rubble and gray dust
slanting against their sides in slides and drifts. Across ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter ii under ban of.htm

The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt
... The vestiges of a few buildings remain above the mounds of rubble, and as soon as
the pickaxe is applied to any spot, irregular layers of bricks, enamelled ...
/.../chapter ithe first chaldaean empire.htm

Thesaurus

Rubble (17 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Rubble (17 Occurrences). ... I will sweep away the birds of
the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. ...
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Build (242 Occurrences)
... of the rude stone waller. Random rubble masonry, unskillfully laid, was the
prevailing characteristic. Occasionally a piece of carefully ...
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Building (249 Occurrences)
... of the rude stone waller. Random rubble masonry, unskillfully laid, was the
prevailing characteristic. Occasionally a piece of carefully ...
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Rubbish (5 Occurrences)

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Rubies (8 Occurrences)

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Ruins (84 Occurrences)
... Micah 1:6 Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field, like places
for planting vineyards; and I will pour down its stones into the valley ...
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Overgrown (5 Occurrences)
... Micah 3:12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem
will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high ...
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Plowed (9 Occurrences)
... Micah 3:12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem
will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high ...
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Pitch (25 Occurrences)
... 7. (vt) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment
or a roadway. 8. (vt) To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune. ...
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Heaps (29 Occurrences)
... Micah 3:12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem
will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high ...
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Bible Concordance

Rubble (17 Occurrences)

2 Kings 23:12 The altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, did the king break down, and beat them down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
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Ezra 6:11 Also I have made a decree, that whoever shall alter this word, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this:
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Nehemiah 4:2 And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said: 'What do these feeble Jews? will they restore at will? will they sacrifice? will they make an end this day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?'
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Nehemiah 4:10 And Judah said: 'The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.'
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Job 15:28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
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Psalms 79:1 A Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
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Isaiah 25:2 For you have made a town a waste place: a strong town a mass of broken walls; the tower of the men of pride has come to an end; it will never be put up again.
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Jeremiah 26:18 Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
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Ezekiel 26:4 They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
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Ezekiel 26:12 They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.
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Daniel 2:5 The king answered the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if you don't make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
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Daniel 3:29 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver after this sort.
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Micah 1:6 Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field, like places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down its stones into the valley, and I will uncover its foundations.
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Micah 3:12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
(WEB NIV)

Habakkuk 1:10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.
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Zephaniah 1:3 I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.
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Zephaniah 2:14 Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
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Subtopics

Rubble

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Pitch (25 Occurrences)

Heaps (29 Occurrences)