H8064 שָׁמַיִם
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 419 KJV occurrences
שָׁמַיִם
shâmayim · shaw-mah'-yim
Definition
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV Renderings
air, [idiom] astrologer, heaven(-s).
Derivation / Etymology
dual of an unused singular שָׁמֶה; from an unused root meaning to be lofty;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 419)
- Genesis 1:1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- Exodus 24:10And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
- Judges 5:20They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
- 1 Chronicles 27:23¶ But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
- Job 14:12So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
- Psalms 89:2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
- Isaiah 13:10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
- Jeremiah 34:20I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.