H3220 יָם
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 396 KJV occurrences
יָם
yâm · yawm
Definition
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
KJV Renderings
sea ([idiom] -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Derivation / Etymology
from an unused root meaning to roar;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 396)
- Genesis 1:10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
- Exodus 36:27And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
- Joshua 11:3And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
- 1 Kings 5:9My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
- Psalms 8:8The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
- Isaiah 11:15And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
- Ezekiel 27:3And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
- Ezekiel 48:26And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.