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
- Proverbs 8:24מָֽיִם׃ · with waterWhen there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.
- Proverbs 8:29וּ֭מַיִם · so that the waters…when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
- Proverbs 9:17מַֽיִם־ · water“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
- Proverbs 17:14מַ֭יִם · a floodTo start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.
- Proverbs 18:4מַ֣יִם · watersThe words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
- Proverbs 20:5מַ֣יִם · watersThe intentions of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.
- Proverbs 21:1מַ֣יִםThe king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.
- Proverbs 25:21מָֽיִם׃ · give him waterIf your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
- Proverbs 25:25מַ֣יִם · waterLike cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land.
- Proverbs 27:19כַּ֭מַּיִם · As waterAs water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the true man.
- Proverbs 30:4מַ֨יִם׀ · the watersWho has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son—surely you know!
- Proverbs 30:16מַּ֑יִם · with waterSheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’
- Ecclesiastes 2:6מָ֑יִםI built reservoirs to water my groves of flourishing trees.
- Ecclesiastes 11:1הַמָּ֑יִם · the watersCast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.
- Song of Solomon 4:15מַ֣יִם · waterYou are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
- Song of Solomon 5:12מָ֑יִם · of waterHis eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
- Song of Solomon 8:7מַ֣יִם · watersMighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.
- Isaiah 1:22בַּמָּֽיִם׃ · with waterYour silver has become dross; your fine wine is diluted with water.
- Isaiah 1:30מַ֖יִם · waterFor you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.
- Isaiah 3:1מָֽיִם׃ · and waterFor behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,
- Isaiah 8:6מֵ֣י · waters“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
- Isaiah 8:7מֵ֣י · floodwaters…the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.
- Isaiah 11:9כַּמַּ֖יִם · of waterThey will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.
- Isaiah 12:3מַ֖יִם · waterWith joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,
- Isaiah 14:23מָ֑יִם“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 15:6מֵ֥י · The watersThe waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
- Isaiah 15:9מֵ֤י · The watersThe waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon—a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.
- Isaiah 17:12מַ֥יִם · watersAlas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.
- Isaiah 17:13מַ֤יִם · watersThe nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
- Isaiah 18:2מַיִם֒ · the waters…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.
- Isaiah 19:5מַ֖יִם · The watersThe waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
- Isaiah 19:8מַ֖יִם · the watersThen the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.
- Isaiah 21:14מָ֑יִם · waterBring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.
- Isaiah 22:9מֵ֥י · waterYou saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.
- Isaiah 22:11לְמֵ֖י · for the watersYou built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.
- Isaiah 23:3וּבְמַ֤יִם · watersOn the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations.
- Isaiah 25:10בְּמֵיFor the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
- Isaiah 28:2מַ֣יִםBehold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground.
- Isaiah 28:17מַ֖יִם · and waterI will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.
- Isaiah 30:14מַ֖יִם · the waterIt will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”
- Isaiah 30:20וּמַ֣יִם · and the waterThe Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.
- Isaiah 30:25מָ֑יִם · of waterAnd from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.
- Isaiah 32:2מַ֣יִם · of waterEach will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
- Isaiah 32:20מָ֑יִם · watersBlessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.
- Isaiah 33:16מֵימָ֖יו · [and] his water…he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.
- Isaiah 35:6מַ֔יִם · watersThen the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
- Isaiah 35:7מָ֑יִם · of waterThe parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.
- Isaiah 36:16מֵי־ · waterDo 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,
- Isaiah 37:25מָ֑יִם · watersI have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
- Isaiah 40:12מַ֗יִם · the watersWho has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?