יָם

yamsea
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine396 occurrences35 books339 verses
This word comes from the name of Mount Ephron.

Definition

from an unused root meaning to roar; 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
Traditional renderings: sea (× -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).

Glossary entries

Ephron (Place)

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

396 total
  1. Isaiah 18:2בַּיָּ֜ם · by sea
    …which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
  2. Isaiah 19:5מֵֽהַיָּ֑ם · of the [Nile]
    The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
  3. Isaiah 21:1יָ֑ם · by the Sea
    This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
  4. Isaiah 23:2יָ֖ם · the sea
    Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose traders have crossed the sea.
  5. Isaiah 23:4 (2×)יָ֔ם · of the sea; הַיָּ֖ם · the sea
    Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”
  6. Isaiah 23:11הַיָּ֔ם · the sea
    The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.
  7. Isaiah 24:14מִיָּֽם׃ · from the west
    They raise their voices, they shout for joy; from the west they proclaim the majesty of the LORD.
  8. Isaiah 24:15הַיָּ֔ם · of the sea
    Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands of the sea.
  9. Isaiah 27:1בַּיָּֽם׃ס · of the sea
    In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
  10. Isaiah 42:10הַיָּם֙ · to the sea
    Sing to the LORD a new song—His praise from the ends of the earth—you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who dwell in them.
  11. Isaiah 43:16בַּיָּ֖ם · in the sea
    Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the surging waters,
  12. Isaiah 48:18הַיָּֽם׃ · of the sea
    If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
  13. Isaiah 49:12וּמִיָּ֔ם · and from the west
    Behold, they will come from far away, from the north and from the west, and from the land of Aswan.”
  14. Isaiah 50:2יָ֗ם · the sea
    Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
  15. Isaiah 51:10 (2×)יָ֔ם · the sea; יָ֔ם · of the sea
    Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
  16. Isaiah 51:15הַיָּ֔ם · the sea
    For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
  17. Isaiah 57:20כַּיָּ֣ם · sea
    But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.
  18. Isaiah 60:5יָ֔ם · of the sea
    Then you will look and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.
  19. Isaiah 63:11מִיָּ֗ם · through the sea
    Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
  20. Jeremiah 5:22לַיָּ֔ם · for the sea
    Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
  21. Jeremiah 6:23כַּיָּ֣ם · like the sea
    They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Zion.”
  22. Jeremiah 15:8יַמִּ֔ים · of the sea
    I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
  23. Jeremiah 25:22הַיָּֽם׃ · the sea
    …all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;
  24. Jeremiah 27:19הַיָּ֖ם · the sea
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the bases, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city,
  25. Jeremiah 31:35הַיָּם֙ · the sea
    Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
  26. Jeremiah 33:22הַיָּ֑ם · on the seashore
    As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
  27. Jeremiah 46:18בַּיָּ֥ם · by the sea
    As surely as I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.
  28. Jeremiah 47:7הַיָּ֖ם · of its coastland
    How can it rest when the LORD has commanded it? He has appointed it against Ashkelon and the shore of its coastland.”
  29. Jeremiah 48:32 (2×)יָ֔ם · to the sea; יָ֥ם
    I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.
  30. Jeremiah 49:21בְּיַם־ · Sea
    At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.
  31. Jeremiah 49:23בַּיָּ֣ם · like the sea
    Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
  32. Jeremiah 50:42כַּיָּ֣ם · like the sea
    They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Babylon.
  33. Jeremiah 51:36יַמָּ֔הּ · her sea
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
  34. Jeremiah 51:42הַיָּ֑ם · The sea
    The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
  35. Jeremiah 52:17יָ֧ם · Sea
    Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.
  36. Jeremiah 52:20הַיָּ֤ם · Sea
    As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
  37. Lamentations 2:13כַּיָּ֛ם · as the sea
    What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?
  38. Ezekiel 25:16הַיָּֽם׃ · the coast
    …therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast.
  39. Ezekiel 26:3הַיָּ֖ם · as the sea
    …therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
  40. Ezekiel 26:5הַיָּ֔ם · in the sea
    She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,
  41. Ezekiel 26:16הַיָּ֔ם · of the sea
    All the princes of the sea will descend from their thrones, remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. Clothed with terror, they will sit on the ground, trembling every moment, appalled over you.
  42. Ezekiel 26:17 (2×)מִיַּמִּ֑ים · by seafaring [men]; בַיָּם֙ · on the sea
    Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!
  43. Ezekiel 26:18בַּיָּ֖ם · in the sea
    Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your downfall; the islands in the sea are dismayed by your demise.”’
  44. Ezekiel 27:3יָ֔ם · to the sea
    Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
  45. Ezekiel 27:4יַמִּ֖ים · of the seas
    Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.
  46. Ezekiel 27:9הַיָּ֤ם · of the sea
    The elders of Gebal were aboard as shipwrights, repairing your leaks. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to barter for your merchandise.