HEAP, n.
1. A pile or mass a collection of things laid in a body so as to form an elevation as a heap of earth or stones.
Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
2. A crowd a throng a cluster applied to living persons. Inelegant and not in use.
3. A mass of ruins.
Thou hast made of a city a heap. Isaiah 25
HEAP,
1. To throw or lay in a heap to pile as, to heap stones often with up as, to heap up earth or with on as, to heap on wood or coal.
2. To amass to accumulate to lay up to collect in great quantity with up as, to heap up treasures.
Though the wicked heap up silver as the dust--Job 27
3. To add something else, in large quantities.
4. To pile to add till the mass takes a roundish form, or till it rises above the measure as, to heap any thing in measuring.
The King James Bible has stood its ground for nearly 400 years. However, during that time the English language has changed, and with it the meanings of some words it used. Here are more than 6,500 words whose definitions have changed since 1611.Wikipedia
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