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Lexicon :: Strong's H3220 - yām

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יָם
Transliteration
yām
Pronunciation
yawm
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to roar
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TWOT Reference: 871a

Strong’s Definitions

יָם yâm, yawm; 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:—sea (× -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 396x

The KJV translates Strong's H3220 in the following manner: sea (321x), west (47x), westward (21x), west side (4x), seafaring men (1x), south (1x), western (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 396x
The KJV translates Strong's H3220 in the following manner: sea (321x), west (47x), westward (21x), west side (4x), seafaring men (1x), south (1x), western (1x).
  1. sea

    1. Mediterranean Sea

    2. Red Sea

    3. Dead Sea

    4. Sea of Galilee

    5. sea (general)

    6. mighty river (Nile)

    7. the sea (the great basin in the temple court)

    8. seaward, west, westward

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יָם yâm, yawm; 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:—sea (× -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
STRONGS H3220: Abbreviations
יָם 390 noun masculineExodus 14:27 sea (Phoenician ים; Arabic bdb041005; Palmyrene בימא on the sea, VogNo. 79; on Assyrian iâmu, (āmu), sea, see DlHWB 307 M-ACD 52 HptBAS i. 171 n.) — absolute יָם 1 Samuel 13:5 +; יָ֫מָּה Genesis 28:14 +; construct יָם Genesis 14:3 + 23 times, also יָ֫מָּה סוּף Exodus 10:19, but always יַםסֿוּף Exodus 13:18 + 22 times; suffix יַמָּהּ Jeremiah 51:36; plural יַמִּים Judges 5:17 + 29 times; — sea: especially
1. Mediterranean Numbers 13:29 (E), Numbers 34:5 (P), Deuteronomy 1:7; Joshua 5:1; 1 Kings 5:23 [1 Kings 5:9] (twice in verse); Jonah 1:4 (twice in verse) + often; the Mediterranean is called also הַיָּם הַגָּדוֺל Numbers 34:6, Numbers 34:7; Joshua 15:12, Joshua 15:47; Ezekiel 48:28 +, compare וּרְחַב יָדַיִם גּ׳ הַיּ׳ Psalm 104:25; מְבוֺא הַיָּם חַגּ׳ הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ Joshua 1:4; Joshua 23:4 (see Assyrian name of Mediterranean tiamtu rabitu ša sulmu šamši, etc., SchrNamender Meere. 171 ff.); אֶלמֿוּל הַלְּבָנוֺן הַגּ׳ הַיּ׳ Joshua 9:1; הָאַחֲרוֺן הַיּ׳ the hinder sea Deuteronomy 11:24; Deuteronomy 34:2; Zechariah 14:8; Joel 2:20 (in the last two opposed to הַקַּדְמֹנִי הַיּ׳, see below); of Mediterranean in particular part פְּלִשְׁתּים יָם Exodus 23:31 (JE); יָם יָפוֺ 2 Chronicles 2:15 [2 Chronicles 2:16] = יָם יָפוֺא Ezra 3:7. ** Of Mediterranean in plural Daniel 11:45 [compare 8 d] Hi Ke Meinh Bev Dr (world-encircling seas Behrm).
2. יַםסֿוּף 'Red Sea' (see סוּף) Exodus 13:18 (compare Exodus 10:19), Exodus 15:4; Numbers 14:25; Deuteronomy 1:40; Joshua 2:10; Judges 11:16 + often; also הַיָּם Exodus 14:2 (twice in verse); Exodus 14:9; Isaiah 51:10 (twice in verse); Isaiah 63:11 +; probably also יָםמִֿצְרַיִם Isaiah 11:15; 'Red Sea' named or referred to approximately + 66 times; יִםסֿוּף clearly of Ælanitic Gulf 1 Kings 9:26 (compare 2 Chronicles 8:17).
3. Dead Sea, יָם מֶלַח sea of salt Genesis 14:3; Numbers 34:3, Numbers 34:12; Deuteronomy 3:17; Joshua 3:16; Joshua 12:3; Joshua 15:2, Joshua 15:5; Joshua 18:19; יָם הָעֲרָבָה Deuteronomy 3:17; Deuteronomy 4:49; Joshua 3:16; Joshua 12:3; 2 Kings 14:25; הַקַּדְמֹנִי הַי׳ Ezekiel 47:18; Zechariah 14:8; Joel 2:20 (see above); simply יָם Isaiah 16:8; Jeremiah 48:32; — in יָם יַעְזֵר Jeremiah 48:32 יָם is textual error, strike out with Gf Gr Che Gie.
4. Sea of Galilee יָם כִּנֶּרֶת Numbers 34:11; Joshua 13:27; יָם כִּנְּרוֺת Joshua 12:3; simply יָם Deuteronomy 33:23.
5. more generally sea, opposed to earth and (or) sky Genesis 1:26, Genesis 1:28; Genesis 9:2 (P), Exodus 20:11 (E), Haggai 2:6 +often Job, Psalms, Isaiah2 etc.; Amos 6:12 read בַּבָּקָר יָם for בקרים (see בָּקָר); sea as under earth Psalm 24:2 (compare Genesis 1:10; Genesis 6:11; Exodus 20:5 = Deuteronomy 5:3); figurative of flood of invaders, עָלָה עַלבָּֿבֶל הַיָּם Jeremiah 51:42.
6. of a mighty river, the Nile Nahum 3:8 (twice in verse); Isaiah 19:5 (|| נָהָר); compare הַתַּנִּין אֲשֶׁר בַּיָּם Isaiah 27:1 and כַּתַּנִּים בַּיַּמִּים Ezekiel 32:2 (simile of Pharaoh); of Euphrates Isaiah 21:1; Jeremiah 51:36 (according to Che Gf and others; Isaiah 21:1 perhaps better of Persian Gulf, see Di).
7. the great basin in temple-court, called the sea: וַיַּעַשׂ אֶתהַֿיָּם מוּצָק 1 Kings 7:23 2 Chronicles 4:2; יָם הַנְּחשֶׁת 2 Kings 25:13; 1 Chronicles 18:8; Jeremiah 52:17; הַיָּם alone 1 Kings 7:24, 1 Kings 7:25 + 10 times Kings Chronicles + Jeremiah 52:20.
8. combinations are:
a. shore of sea, sea-shore שְׂפַת הַיָּם Joshua 11:4; 1 Kings 5:9, and in simile Genesis 22:17; Judges 7:12; 1 Samuel 13:5; חוֺף הַי׳ Joshua 9:1; Ezekiel 25:16; חוֺף יַמִּים Genesis 49:13; Judges 5:17; compare חֶבֶל הַיָּם Zephaniah 2:5 region by the sea; so Zephaniah 2:6 but dubious, see I. חֶבֶל 3.
b. sand of the sea (shore) חוֺל הַיָּם (in simile) Genesis 32:13 [Genesis 32:12]; Genesis 41:49; Hosea 2:1 [Hosea 1:10]; Isaiah 10:22 + often (see חוֺל); חוֺל גְּבוּל לַיָּם Jeremiah 5:22.
c. לְשׁוֺן הַיָּם tongue (arm or gulf) of sea Joshua 15:5; Joshua 18:19; Isaiah 11:15.
d. מִיָּם עַדיָֿם Amos 8:12; Zechariah 9:10; Psalm 72:8, compare Micah 7:12; Zechariah 14:8 (twice in verse); Joel 2:20 (twice in verse); Daniel 11:45.
9. = (west, west-word (originally sea-ward, from position of Mediterranean with reference to Palestine, and this sense still often perceptible): with other three points of compass Genesis 13:14; Genesis 28:14 (J), Numbers 2:18; Numbers 35:5 (P), Deuteronomy 3:27; 1 Kings 7:25; 1 Chronicles 9:24; 2 Chronicles 4:4; Ezekiel 42:19 + 6 times Ezekiel; Zechariah 14:4; Daniel 8:4; Psalm 107:3 (מִמִּזְרָח וּמִמַּעֲרָב מִצָּפוֺן וּמִיָּם; but read perhaps וּמִיָּמִן from the south, Hu Pe Bi Che); opposed to east Joshua 11:2; Joshua 16:6 + 16 times Ezekiel 48; west alone Genesis 12:8 (J); רוּהַ יָם Exodus 10:19 (J) west wind; מִיָּם לְ westward Joshua 8:9, Joshua 8:12, Joshua 8:13 +; יָ֫מָּה westward, often of tabernacle Exodus 26:22, Exodus 26:27; Numbers 3:23Joshua 5:1; Joshua 15:8, Joshua 15:10 etc., + often Ezekiel; דֶּרֶךְ הַיָּם = westward Ezekiel 41:12; גְּבוּל יָם western border Numbers 34:6 (twice in verse); Joshua 15:2; פְּאַת־יָם west side Exodus 27:12; Exodus 38:12; Numbers 35:5; Joshua 18:14; דרך פְּאַת הים Ezekiel 41:12 (see further פאה).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H3221.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:10; 1:26; 1:28; 6:11; 9:2; 12:8; 13:14; 14:3; 14:3; 22:17; 28:14; 28:14; 32:12; 41:49; 49:13

Exodus

10:19; 10:19; 10:19; 13:18; 13:18; 14:2; 14:9; 14:27; 15:4; 20:5; 20:11; 23:31; 26:22; 26:27; 27:12; 38:12

Numbers

2:18; 3:23; 13:29; 14:25; 34:3; 34:5; 34:6; 34:6; 34:7; 34:11; 34:12; 35:5; 35:5

Deuteronomy

1:7; 1:40; 3:17; 3:17; 3:27; 4:49; 5:3; 11:24; 33:23; 34:2

Joshua

1:4; 2:10; 3:16; 3:16; 5:1; 5:1; 8:9; 8:12; 8:13; 9:1; 9:1; 11:2; 11:4; 12:3; 12:3; 12:3; 13:27; 15:2; 15:2; 15:5; 15:5; 15:8; 15:10; 15:12; 15:47; 16:6; 18:14; 18:19; 18:19; 23:4

Judges

5:17; 5:17; 7:12; 11:16

1 Samuel

13:5; 13:5

1 Kings

5:9; 5:9; 7:23; 7:24; 7:25; 7:25; 9:26

2 Kings

14:25; 25:13

1 Chronicles

9:24; 18:8

2 Chronicles

2:16; 4:2; 4:4; 8:17

Ezra

3:7

Psalms

24:2; 72:8; 104:25; 107:3

Isaiah

10:22; 11:15; 11:15; 16:8; 19:5; 21:1; 21:1; 27:1; 51:10; 63:11

Jeremiah

5:22; 48:32; 48:32; 51:36; 51:36; 51:42; 52:17; 52:20

Ezekiel

25:16; 32:2; 41:12; 41:12; 42:19; 47:18; 48; 48:28

Daniel

8:4; 11:45; 11:45

Hosea

1:10

Joel

2:20; 2:20; 2:20

Amos

6:12; 8:12

Jonah

1:4

Micah

7:12

Nahum

3:8

Zephaniah

2:5; 2:6

Haggai

2:6

Zechariah

9:10; 14:4; 14:8; 14:8; 14:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3220 matches the Hebrew יָם (yām),
which occurs 396 times in 339 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 7 (Num 33:8–Jos 17:9)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:8 -

They traveled from Pi-hahiroth[fn] and crossed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness. They took a three-day journey into the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:10 -

They traveled from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11 -

They traveled from the Red Sea and camped in the Wilderness of Sin.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 -

“Your southern side will be from the Wilderness of Zin along the boundary of Edom. Your southern border on the east will begin at the east end of the Dead Sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:5 -

“The border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, where it will end at the Mediterranean Sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:6 -

“Your western border will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea; this will be your western border.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:7 -

“This will be your northern border: From the Mediterranean Sea draw a line to Mount Hor;

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:11 -

“The border will go down from Shepham to Riblah east of Ain. It will continue down and reach the eastern slope of the Sea of Chinnereth.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:12 -

“Then the border will go down to the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea. This will be your land defined by its borders on all sides.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 -

“Measure a thousand yards[fn] outside the city for the east side, a thousand yards for the south side, a thousand yards for the west side, and a thousand yards for the north side, with the city in the center. This will belong to them as pasturelands for the cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 -

“Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites and their neighbors in the Arabah, the hill country, the Judean foothills,[fn] the Negev and the sea coast ​— ​to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon as far as the great river, the Euphrates River.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40 -

“But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.’

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 -

“Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had told me, and we traveled around the hill country of Seir for many days.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:17 -

“The Arabah and Jordan are also borders from Chinnereth[fn] as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:27 -

“Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west, north, south, and east, and see it with your own eyes, for you will not cross the Jordan.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:49 -

and all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Dead Sea below the slopes of Pisgah.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4 -

“what he did to Egypt’s army, its horses and chariots, when he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued you, and he destroyed them completely;[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 -

“Every place the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon and from the Euphrates River[fn] to the Mediterranean Sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:13 -

“And it is not across the sea so that you have to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea, get it for us, and proclaim it to us so that we may follow it? ’

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:19 -

They summon the peoples to a mountain;

there they offer acceptable sacrifices.

For they draw from the wealth of the seas

and the hidden treasures of the sand.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:23 -

He said about Naphtali:

Naphtali, enjoying approval,

full of the LORD’s blessing,

take[fn] possession to the west and the south.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:2 -

all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean[fn] Sea,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4 -

“Your territory will be from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great river, the Euphrates River ​— ​all the land of the Hittites ​— ​and west to the Mediterranean Sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 -

“For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two Amorite kings you completely destroyed across the Jordan.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 -

and the water flowing downstream stood still, rising up in a mass that extended as far as[fn] Adam, a city next to Zarethan. The water flowing downstream into the Sea of the Arabah ​— ​the Dead Sea ​— ​was completely cut off, and the people crossed opposite Jericho.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23 -

“For the LORD your God dried up the water of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up before us until we had crossed over.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:1 -

When all the Amorite kings across the Jordan to the west and all the Canaanite kings near the sea heard how the LORD had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, they lost heart and their courage failed because of the Israelites.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:9 -

So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the ambush site and waited between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But he spent that night with the troops.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 -

Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:13 -

The troops were stationed in this way: the main[fn] camp to the north of the city and its rear guard to the west of the city. And that night Joshua went into the valley.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:1 -

When all the kings heard about Jericho and Ai, those who were west of the Jordan in the hill country, in the Judean foothills,[fn] and all along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea toward Lebanon ​— ​the Hethites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites ​— ​

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:2 -

and the kings of the north in the hill country, the Arabah south of Chinnereth, the Judean foothills,[fn] and the Slopes of Dor[fn] to the west,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:3 -

the Canaanites in the east and west, the Amorites, Hethites, Perizzites, and Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites at the foot of Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:4 -

They went out with all their armies ​— ​a multitude as numerous as the sand on the seashore ​— ​along with a vast number of horses and chariots.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:3 -

the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinnereth[fn] to the Sea of Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), eastward through Beth-jeshimoth and southward[fn] below the slopes of Pisgah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:7 -

Joshua and the Israelites struck down the following kings of the land beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which ascends toward Seir (Joshua gave their land as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their allotments:

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:27 -

in the valley: Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon ​— ​the rest of the kingdom of King Sihon of Heshbon. Their land also included the Jordan and its territory as far as the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth[fn] on the east side of the Jordan.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:2 -

Their southern border began at the tip of the Dead Sea on the south bay[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:4 -

It proceeded to Azmon and to the Brook of Egypt and so the border ended at the Mediterranean Sea. This is your[fn] southern border.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:5 -

Now the eastern border was along the Dead Sea to the mouth of the Jordan.

The border on the north side was from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8 -

From there the border ascended Ben Hinnom Valley to the southern Jebusite slope (that is, Jerusalem) and ascended to the top of the hill that faces Hinnom Valley on the west, at the northern end of Rephaim Valley.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:10 -

The border turned westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, went to the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), descended to Beth-shemesh, and proceeded to Timnah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:11 -

Then the border reached to the slope north of Ekron, curved to Shikkeron, proceeded to Mount Baalah, went to Jabneel, and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:12 -

Now the western border was the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.

This was the boundary of the descendants of Judah around their clans.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:46 -

from Ekron to the sea, all the cities near Ashdod, with their settlements;

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:47 -

Ashdod, with its surrounding villages and settlements; Gaza, with its surrounding villages and settlements, to the Brook of Egypt and the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:3 -

It then descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:6 -

In the north the border went westward from Michmethath; it turned eastward from Taanath-shiloh and passed it east of Janoah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:8 -

From Tappuah the border went westward along the Brook of Kanah and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans, together with

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9 -

From there the border descended to the Brook of Kanah; south of the brook, cities belonged to Ephraim among Manasseh’s cities. Manasseh’s border was on the north side of the brook and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.


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