עֲרֵימָה, pile, heap, stack. Maasr. I, 5, sq. משיעמיד ע׳ (are subject to tithes) from the time he piles up the fruit. Tosef. Ter. III, 17 תורמין מן הע׳ על הכרי לא מן הכרי על הע׳ (ed. Zuck. מן המוץ) you may separate T’rumah from a stack for the pile (of threshed grain), but not from a pile for the stack. Ib. IV, 16 ע׳ מורחת a finished pile. Ex. R. s. 31 כשם שה׳ הזאת עומדת … כך עשה הק"בה את העולם ע׳ וכ׳ as the stack stands ready, and the priest goes in and takes T’rumah of it, so the Lord has made the world a stack and taken Israel as his T’rumah (with ref. to Jer. II, 3); a. fr.—Pl. עֲרֵימוֹת, עֲרֵמוֹת. Mekh. B’shall., Shir., s. 6 (expl. נערמו, Ex. XV, 8) עשאן כמין ע׳ he made the waves stand like stacks; Yalk. Ex. 248. Ter. II, 1; a. fr.