מַי

ma.yimwater
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine579 occurrences33 books522 verses
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)).

Glossary entries

Water Gate

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

579 total
  1. 2 Kings 18:31מֵֽי־ · water
    Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,
  2. 2 Kings 19:24מַ֣יִם · waters
    I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
  3. 2 Kings 20:20הַמַּ֖יִם · water
    As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, along with all his might and how he constructed the pool and the tunnel to bring water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  4. 1 Chronicles 11:17מַ֔יִם · of water
    David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
  5. 1 Chronicles 11:18מַ֙יִם֙ · water
    So the Three broke through the Philistine camp, drew water from the well at the gate of Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD,
  6. 1 Chronicles 14:11מָ֑יִם · flood
    So David and his men went up to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, God has burst out against my enemies by my hand.” So they called that place Baal-perazim.
  7. 2 Chronicles 18:26וּמַ֣יִם · and water
    …and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
  8. 2 Chronicles 32:3מֵימֵ֣י · the waters
    …he consulted with his leaders and mighty men about stopping up the waters of the springs outside the city, and they helped him carry it out.
  9. 2 Chronicles 32:4מַ֥יִם · of water
    Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.
  10. 2 Chronicles 32:30מֵימֵ֤י · of the Spring
    It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Spring of Gihon and channeled it down to the west side of the City of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.
  11. Ezra 10:6וּמַ֣יִם · water
    Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
  12. Nehemiah 3:26הַמַּ֙יִם֙ · the Water
    …and the temple servants living on the hill of Ophel made repairs opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the tower that juts out.
  13. Nehemiah 4:23הַמָּֽיִם׃ס · [even to go] for water
    So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the guards with me changed out of our clothes; each carried his weapon, even to go for water.
  14. Nehemiah 8:1הַמָּ֑יִם · the Water
    At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.
  15. Nehemiah 8:3הַמַּ֗יִם · the Water
    So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.
  16. Nehemiah 8:16הַמַּ֔יִם · by the Water
    And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim.
  17. Nehemiah 9:11בְּמַ֥יִם · into raging waters
    You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
  18. Nehemiah 9:15וּמַ֗יִם · water
    In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land that You had sworn to give them.
  19. Nehemiah 9:20וּמַ֛יִם · water
    You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
  20. Nehemiah 12:37הַמַּ֖יִם · the Water
    At the Fountain Gate they went directly up the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall and passed above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.
  21. Nehemiah 13:2וּבַמָּ֑יִם · and water
    …because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).
  22. Job 3:24כַ֝מַּ֗יִם · like water
    I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
  23. Job 5:10מַ֝יִם · water
    He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
  24. Job 8:11מָֽיִם׃ · water
    Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?
  25. Job 11:16כְּמַ֖יִם · it only as waters
    For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.
  26. Job 12:15בַּמַּ֣יִם · the waters
    If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.
  27. Job 14:9מַ֣יִם · of water
    …at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.
  28. Job 14:11מַ֭יִם · As water
    As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,
  29. Job 14:19מַ֗יִם · as water
    …as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
  30. Job 15:16כַמַּ֣יִם · like water
    …how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
  31. Job 22:7מַ֭יִם · water
    You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,
  32. Job 22:11מַ֥יִם · of water
    …it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
  33. Job 24:18מַ֗יִם · of the water
    They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.
  34. Job 24:19מֵֽימֵי־
    As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.
  35. Job 26:5מַ֝֗יִם · the waters
    The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
  36. Job 26:8מַ֥יִם · the waters
    He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
  37. Job 26:10מָ֑יִם · of the waters
    He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
  38. Job 27:20כַ֭מַּיִם · like a flood
    Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
  39. Job 28:25וּ֝מַ֗יִם · the waters
    When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
  40. Job 29:19מָ֑יִם · the waters
    My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
  41. Job 34:7כַּמָּֽיִם׃ · like water
    What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
  42. Job 36:27מָ֑יִם · of water
    For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,
  43. Job 37:10מַ֣יִם · and the watery
    By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
  44. Job 38:30מַ֣יִם · when the waters
    …when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
  45. Job 38:34מַ֥יִם · of water
    Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
  46. Psalm 1:3מָ֥יִם · of water
    He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
  47. Psalm 18:11מַ֝֗יִם · [and] storm
    He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
  48. Psalm 18:15מַ֗יִם · of the sea
    The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
  49. Psalm 18:16מִמַּ֥יִם · waters
    He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
  50. Psalm 22:14כַּמַּ֥יִם · like water
    I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.