This word comes from the name of Water Gate.
Definition
dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
Traditional renderings: piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Traditional renderings: piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
579 total
- Ezekiel 47:8הַמָּֽיִם׃ · the water thereAnd he said to me, “This water flows out to the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah. When it empties into the Dead Sea, the water there becomes fresh.
- Ezekiel 47:9הַמַּ֣יִם · [it]Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will flourish.
- Ezekiel 47:12מֵימָ֔יו · the waterAlong both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”
- Ezekiel 47:19מֵי֙ · the watersOn the south side it will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, and along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea. This will be the southern boundary.
- Ezekiel 48:28מֵ֚י · to the watersThe southern border of Gad will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, then along the Brook of Egypt and out to the Great Sea.
- Daniel 1:12וּמַ֥יִם · and water“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
- Daniel 12:6לְמֵימֵ֣י · the watersOne of them said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long until the fulfillment of these wonders?”
- Daniel 12:7לְמֵימֵ֣י · the watersAnd the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”
- Hosea 2:5וּמֵימַ֔י · and waterFor their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’
- Hosea 5:10כַּמַּ֖יִם · like waterThe princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.
- Hosea 10:7מָֽיִם׃ · of the waterSamaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.
- Joel 1:20מָ֔יִם · of waterEven the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.
- Joel 3:18מָ֑יִם · with waterAnd in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.
- Amos 4:8מַ֖יִם · for waterPeople staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
- Amos 5:8לְמֵֽי־ · the watersHe who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—
- Amos 5:24כַּמַּ֖יִם · like a riverBut let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
- Amos 8:11לַמַּ֔יִם · for waterBehold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
- Amos 9:6לְמֵֽי־ · the watersHe builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.
- Jonah 2:5מַ֙יִם֙ · The watersThe waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.
- Jonah 3:7וּמַ֖יִםThen he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.
- Micah 1:4כְּמַ֖יִם · like waterThe mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
- Nahum 2:8מַ֖יִם · of waterNineveh has been like a pool of water throughout her days, but now it is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.
- Nahum 3:8מַ֖יִם · with waterAre you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
- Nahum 3:14מֵ֤י · waterDraw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!
- Habakkuk 2:14כַּמַּ֖יִם · as the watersFor the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
- Habakkuk 3:10מַ֖יִם · of waterThe mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.
- Habakkuk 3:15מַ֥יִם · watersYou trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.
- Zechariah 9:11מַ֖יִםAs for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
- Zechariah 14:8מַֽיִם־ · waterAnd on that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the Eastern Sea and the other half toward the Western Sea, in summer and winter alike.