יָם yam

Hebrew word for “sea” · Strong’s H3220 · used 396 times in 339 verses

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Meaning

: sea; 1) sea; 1a) Mediterranean Sea;

Senses in the lexicon

• sea (321)
• sea: west (75)

How it is translated

Glosses given for yam in context, with how often each is used:

• sea 273
• west -ward 49
• seas 30
• west 25
• sea towards 10
• like the sea 3
• sea of towards 1
• ¿ the sea 1
• will be like the sea 1
• will be from sea 1
• will be west -ward 1
• west- -ward 1

Where it is used

Also in 23 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 48 (20), Exodus 14 (11), Ezekiel 27 (10), Joshua 15 (9), Exodus 15 (7), Ezekiel 47 (7), Jonah 1 (7), Numbers 34 (6), 2 Chronicles 4 (6), 1 Kings 7 (5)

Forms

• הים 140
• ים 91
• ימה 48
• בים 28
• ימים 21
• מים 18
• הימה 10
• והים 7
• לים 6
• וימה 6

Words used with it

Words that share verses with yam more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• גְּבוּל gevul “border” 54
• פֵּאָה peah “side” 31
• מַי mayim “water” 48
• סוּף suph “Red (Sea)” 24
• נֶגֶב negev “south” 29
• צָפוֹן tsaphon “north” 31
• עַד ad “till” 49
• קָדִים qadim “east” 22
• חוֹל chol “sand” 17
• נָהָר nahar “river” 21
• יַרְדֵּן yarden “Jordan” 22
• עָבַר avar “to pass” 24

Key verses

The verses using yam that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 1:26 — And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the…
• Genesis 22:17 — That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and…
• Isaiah 11:9 — They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
• Isaiah 11:11 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from…
• Isaiah 27:1 — In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall…
• Isaiah 42:10 — Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants…
• Isaiah 50:2 — Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to…
• Isaiah 63:11 — Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he…
• Jeremiah 5:22 — Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot…
• Jeremiah 31:35 — Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when…
• Ezekiel 28:2 — Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God,…
• Hosea 1:10 — Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.