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Lexicon :: Strong's H4325 - mayim

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מַיִם
Transliteration
mayim
Pronunciation
mah'-yim
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1188

Strong’s Definitions

מַיִם mayim, mah'-yim; dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen:— piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 582x

The KJV translates Strong's H4325 in the following manner: water (571x), piss (2x), waters (with H6440) (2x), watersprings (2x), washing (1x), watercourse (with H4161) (1x), waterflood (1x), watering (1x), variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 582x
The KJV translates Strong's H4325 in the following manner: water (571x), piss (2x), waters (with H6440) (2x), watersprings (2x), washing (1x), watercourse (with H4161) (1x), waterflood (1x), watering (1x), variant (1x).
  1. water, waters

    1. water

    2. water of the feet, urine

    3. of danger, violence, transitory things, refreshment (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַיִם mayim, mah'-yim; dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen:— piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
STRONGS H4325: Abbreviations
II. [מוֺ] = מַי water.

[מַי]580 noun masculine 2 Samuel 14:14 only plural מַ֫יִם waters, water (Late Hebrew id.; MI23 [ין] מ; SI5 המים; Aramaic מַיָּא, מַיִּין, bdb056503 Assyrian , plural , also mâmu DlHWB 394; Arabic bdb056504Ethiopic bdb056505, plural bdb056506; Sabean [מו], מום plural מון, Minaean [מה], plural מהן DHM6th Or. Congr. (Leiden) ii. 1, 451 f. (see on these forms BaZMG xiii.1888, 341 ff.)); — מַ֫יִם (מָ֑יִם) Genesis 1:2 +; הַמַּ֫יְמָה Exodus 7:15; Exodus 8:16; construct מֵי Genesis 7:7 + 71 times; מֵימֵי Exodus 4:9 + 10 times + Qr 2 Kings 18:27 = Isaiah 36:12; suffix מֵימַי Hosea 2:7 + 1 Samuel 25:11 (but read here יֵינִי Greek Version of the LXX Ew Th We Klo Dr Kit Bu); מֵימֶ֫יךָ Exodus 23:25 + 3 times; מֵימָיו Numbers 20:8 + 6 times; מֵימֶיהָ Jeremiah 6:7; Jeremiah 50:38; מֵימֵינוּ Lamentations 5:4; מֵימֵיהֶם Exodus 7:19 + 4 times; — waters, water (with adjective plural Genesis 26:19; Exodus 15:10; Leviticus 14:5, 6, 50 + often, so always with adjective; also with plural participle Numbers 5:18, 19, 24; 2 Kings 3:20 +; with plural pronoun Numbers 20:13; Numbers 27:14; 2 Kings 2:21 +; compare suffix Joshua 4:18; before plural verb Genesis 1:9, 20, 21; Genesis 7:17 + often; after plural verb Joshua 3:13; Isaiah 28:17; Proverbs 9:17; Ezekiel 31:4 +; rarely with singular verb; before, Genesis 9:15; Leviticus 11:34; Numbers 20:2; Numbers 24:7; Numbers 33:14; 2 Kings 3:9; after, Numbers 19:13, 20); —
1.
a. water of a spring or well (עַיִן, בְּאֵר) Genesis 16:7; Genesis 24:11, 13 (twice in verse); Genesis 24:43; Exodus 15:27 (twice in verse) (J), Genesis 21:19, 25; Numbers 20:17; Numbers 21:16 (E), etc.; for drinking, also Amos 4:8; Amos 8:11; Jonah 3:7 + often; out of rock Exodus 17:6 (E), Numbers 20:8 (twice in verse); Numbers 20:10, 11 (P), Deuteronomy 8:15 etc.; מֵי מְרִיבָה (RSSemitic i. 165; 2nd ed. 181) Numbers 20:13, 24; Numbers 27:14 (P), Deuteronomy 33:8; Psalm 81:8; Psalm 106:32; compare Deuteronomy 32:51; Ezekiel 47:19; Ezekiel 48:28; for washing (hands, feet, person) Genesis 18:4; Genesis 24:32; Genesis 43:24 (J), 2 Kings 3:11; Exodus 29:4; Exodus 30:20; Leviticus 15:5, 6 + (P); (victims) Leviticus 1:9, 13; Leviticus 8:21 (P); (vessels) Leviticus 6:21; Leviticus 12:32; Leviticus 12:34 (P); (garments) Leviticus 15:17; Numbers 19:8 (P); for cooking Exodus 12:9 (P), compare Isaiah 64:1; Ezekiel 24:3 (symbolic); for purification Numbers 8:7 (מֵי חַטָּאת) Numbers 19:9 (מֵי נִדָּה), compare Numbers 19:13; Numbers 19:18; Numbers 19:20; Numbers 19:21; Numbers 19:31; Numbers 31:23 (twice in verse) (all P), Ezekiel 36:25 (figurative).
b. of a river, Nile Exodus 2:10; Exodus 4:9 (twice in verse) (J), Jeremiah 2:18 etc.; Jordan Joshua 3:8 (D), Joshua 3:15; Joshua 3:16 (JE), etc.; Euphrates Isaiah 8:7 (figurative), Jeremiah 2:18; Ezekiel's river Ezekiel 47:1 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 47:2 +, etc.; of streams, canals, etc., especially, as condition of fertility Deuteronomy 8:7; Deuteronomy 10:7; Isaiah 1:30; Proverbs 30:16; 2 Kings 3:17 +, etc.
c. of sea Amos 5:8; Amos 9:6; Red Sea Exodus 15:8, 10, 19 (song), Exodus 14:21, 22, 26 + (P), Joshua 2:10 (D), etc.
d. of flood Genesis 7:7, 10; Genesis 8:3, 7, 8, 9, 11 (J), Genesis 6:17; Genesis 7:6, 17, 18 (twice in verse); Genesis 7:19; Genesis 8:5; Genesis 9:11, 15 (P); so מֵינֹֿחַ Isaiah 54:9 (twice in verse) waters of Noah.
f. in clouds Jeremiah 10:13; Job 26:8; Psalm 29:3 (twice in verse); Psalm 104:3; Psalm 148:4, etc.
g. of rain Judges 5:4; 2 Samuel 21:10; Deuteronomy 11:11; Psalm 65:10; Job 5:10 (|| מָטָר), etc.
h. of dew Judges 6:38.
i. primæval deep Genesis 1:2, 6 (P).
2. with proper names, of location (q. v.), to denote springs, streams, or seas belonging to, near, such places: מֵימֵי מִצְרַיִם Exodus 7:19; Exodus 8:2; מֵי מְרִיבָה (see above 1a); מֵי מֵרוֺם Joshua 11:5, 7; מֵי עֵיןשֶֿׁמֶשׁ Joshua 15:7; מֵי נֶפְתּוֺחַ Joshua 15:9; Joshua 18:15; מֵי יְרִיחוֺ Joshua 16:1; מֵי מְגִּדּוֺ Judges 5:19; מֵי נִמְרִ(י)ם Isaiah 15:6; Jeremiah 48:34; מֵי דִימוֺן Isaiah 15:9; compare מֵי הַשִּׁלֹּחַ Isaiah 8:6; מֵימֵי גִּיחוֺן הָעֶלְיוֺן 2 Chronicles 32:30; compare also proper name, of a location מִשְׂרְפוֺת מַיִם Joshua 11:8; Joshua 13:6.
3. special uses are: מֵי רַגְלַיִם water of the feet = urine 2 Kings 18:27 = Isaiah 36:12; compare מַדְמֵנָה בְּמֵי Isaiah 25:10 Kt in water of a dunghill (> Qr בְּמוֺ); מַיִם לַחַץ water (which is) distress, because drunk in imprisonment 1 Kings 22:27 (|| לֶחֶם לַחַץ) = 2 Chronicles 18:26; בְּמֵישָֿׁ֑לֶג in snow-water Job 9:30 Qr (Kt במו; Me Hoffm Siegf כְּמוֺ), מֵימֵי שֶׁלֶג Job 24:19; מַיִם קְדשִׁים Numbers 5:17 holy water (compare RSSem.165, 2nd ed.181, but text dubious, see Di); מֵי הַמָּרִים bitter water Numbers 5:18, 19, 23, 24; compare Exodus 15:23 (כִּי מָרִים הֵם), opposed to וַיִּמְתְּקוּ הַמַּיִם Exodus 15:25 and the waters were sweetened; מֵי חַטָּאת, מֵי נִדָּה see above 1a; מַיִם חַיִּים living (i.e. running) water Leviticus 14:5, 6, 50, 51, 52; Numbers 19:17, also (figurative) Zechariah 14:8 (compare Ezekiel 47), and (figurative) Jeremiah 2:13; Jeremiah 17:13. See also below (compare Numbers 21:17, 18; see RSSem.i.127.157; 2nd ed.135,176).
4. among figurative uses are:
a. of distress Isaiah 43:2; Psalm 66:12 (|| אֵשׁ), Psalm 69:2; Lamentations 3:54; usually many waters 2 Samuel 22:17 = Psalm 18:17, compare Job 22:11; Psalm 32:6; Psalm 144:7, or deep waters Psalm 69:3; Psalm 69:15, compare Psalm 69:16; also מֵירֿאֹשׁ water of gall Jeremiah 8:14; Jeremiah 9:14; Jeremiah 23:15.
b. מַיִם פֶּרֶץ 2 Samuel 5:20 = 1 Chronicles 14:11 of outbursting force.
c. מַיִם שְׁאוֺן Isaiah 17:12, 13 of rushing nations.
d. of what is impetuous, violent, overwhelming Isaiah 28:2, 17; Hosea 10:7; Job 27:20; Psalm 124:4; Psalm 124:5; Psalm 88:18; simile of impetuousness כַּמַּיִם פַּחַז Genesis 49:4.
e. (as running away) of heart in timidity Joshua 7:5, compare Psalm 22:16, of knees Ezekiel 7:17; Ezekiel 21:12.
f. of transitoriness Job 11:16; Job 24:18; Psalm 58:8.
g. of refreshment Isaiah 32:2; Isaiah 49:10; spiritual Isaiah 12:3.
h. מֵי מְנֻחוֺת Psalm 23:2 in figure of rest and peace, compare Jeremiah 31:9.
i. of reckless bloodshed (poured out like water) Psalm 79:3; compare pouring away (and not eating) blood Deuteronomy 12:16, 24; Deuteronomy 15:23.
j. בְּאֵר מַיִם חַיִּים Songs 4:15 figurative of bride; מַיִם מִבּוֺרֶ֑ךָ Proverbs 5:15 of enjoyment of one's own wife; of harlotry מַיִם גְּנוּבִים Proverbs 9:17 stolen waters.
k. of outpoured wrath of י׳ Hosea 5:10.
l. of abundant justice Amos 5:24.
m. of outpoured feelings Job 3:24; שִׁפְכִי כַמַּיִם לִבֵךְ Lamentations 2:19. — Isaiah 48:1 read probably מִמְּעֵי for MT מִמֵּי, so Secker Du CheHpt Skinner, compare Di.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:2; 1:2; 1:6; 1:9; 1:20; 1:21; 6:17; 7:6; 7:7; 7:7; 7:10; 7:17; 7:17; 7:18; 7:19; 8:3; 8:5; 8:7; 8:8; 8:9; 8:11; 9:11; 9:15; 9:15; 16:7; 18:4; 21:19; 21:25; 24:11; 24:13; 24:32; 24:43; 26:19; 43:24; 49:4

Exodus

2:10; 4:9; 4:9; 7:15; 7:19; 7:19; 8:2; 8:16; 12:9; 14:21; 14:22; 14:26; 15:8; 15:10; 15:10; 15:19; 15:23; 15:25; 15:27; 17:6; 20:4; 23:25; 29:4; 30:20

Leviticus

1:9; 1:13; 6:21; 8:21; 11:34; 14:5; 14:5; 14:6; 14:6; 14:50; 14:50; 14:51; 14:52; 15:5; 15:6; 15:17

Numbers

5:17; 5:18; 5:18; 5:19; 5:19; 5:23; 5:24; 5:24; 8:7; 19:8; 19:9; 19:13; 19:13; 19:17; 19:18; 19:20; 19:20; 19:21; 20:2; 20:8; 20:8; 20:10; 20:11; 20:13; 20:13; 20:17; 20:24; 21:16; 21:17; 21:18; 24:7; 27:14; 27:14; 31:23; 33:14

Deuteronomy

4:18; 5:8; 8:7; 8:15; 10:7; 11:11; 12:16; 12:24; 15:23; 32:51; 33:8

Joshua

2:10; 3:8; 3:13; 3:15; 3:16; 4:18; 7:5; 11:5; 11:7; 11:8; 13:6; 15:7; 15:9; 16:1; 18:15

Judges

5:4; 5:19; 6:38

1 Samuel

25:11

2 Samuel

5:20; 14:14; 21:10; 22:17

1 Kings

22:27

2 Kings

2:21; 3:9; 3:11; 3:17; 3:20; 18:27; 18:27

1 Chronicles

14:11

2 Chronicles

18:26; 32:30

Job

3:24; 5:10; 9:30; 11:16; 22:11; 24:18; 24:19; 26:5; 26:8; 27:20

Psalms

18:17; 22:16; 23:2; 29:3; 32:6; 58:8; 65:10; 66:12; 69:2; 69:3; 69:15; 69:16; 79:3; 81:8; 88:18; 104:3; 106:32; 124:4; 124:5; 136:6; 144:7; 148:4

Proverbs

5:15; 9:17; 9:17; 30:16

Song of Songs

4:15

Isaiah

1:30; 8:6; 8:7; 12:3; 15:6; 15:9; 17:12; 17:13; 25:10; 28:2; 28:17; 28:17; 32:2; 36:12; 36:12; 43:2; 48:1; 49:10; 54:9; 64:1

Jeremiah

2:13; 2:18; 2:18; 6:7; 8:14; 9:14; 10:13; 17:13; 23:15; 31:9; 48:34; 50:38

Lamentations

2:19; 3:54; 5:4

Ezekiel

7:17; 21:12; 24:3; 31:4; 36:25; 47; 47:1; 47:2; 47:19; 48:28

Hosea

2:7; 5:10; 10:7

Amos

4:8; 5:8; 5:24; 8:11; 9:6

Jonah

3:7

Zechariah

14:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4325 matches the Hebrew מַיִם (mayim),
which occurs 581 times in 524 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 7 / 11 (Job 26:10–Psa 109:18)

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:10 - “He has inscribed a circle on the surface of the waters H4325
At the boundary of light and darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:20 - “Terrors overtake him like a flood; H4325
A tempest steals him away in the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:25 - “When He imparted weight to the wind
And meted out the waters H4325 by measure,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:19 - ‘My root is spread out to the waters, H4325
And dew lies all night on my branch.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:7 - “What man is like Job,
Who drinks up derision like water, H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:27 - “For He draws up the drops of water, H4325
They distill rain from [fn]the [fn]mist,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:10 - “From the breath of God ice is made,
And the expanse of the waters H4325 is frozen.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:30 - “Water H4325 [fn]becomes hard like stone,
And the surface of the deep is imprisoned.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:34 - “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
So that an abundance of water H4325 will cover you?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 1:3 - He will be like a tree firmly planted by [fn]streams of water, H4325
Which yields its fruit in its season
And its [fn]leaf does not wither;
And [fn]in whatever he does, he prospers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:11 - He made darkness His hiding place, His [fn]canopy around Him,
Darkness of waters, H4325 thick clouds of the skies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:15 - Then the channels of water H4325 appeared,
And the foundations of the world were [fn]laid bare
At Your rebuke, O LORD,
At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:16 - He sent from on high, He took me;
He drew me out of many waters. H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:14 - I am poured out like water, H4325
And all my bones are out of joint;
My heart is like wax;
It is melted within [fn]me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:2 - He makes me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside [fn]quiet waters. H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:3 - The voice of the LORD is upon the waters; H4325
The God of glory thunders,
The LORD is over [fn]many waters. H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:6 - Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You [fn]in a time when You may be found;
Surely in a flood of great waters H4325 they will not reach him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:7 - He gathers the waters H4325 of the sea together [fn]as a heap;
He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:1 - For the choir director. A [fn]Maskil of the sons of Korah.
As the deer [fn]pants for the water H4325 brooks,
So my soul [fn]pants for You, O God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:3 - Though its waters H4325 roar and foam,
Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride. [fn]Selah.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:7 - Let them flow away like water H4325 that runs off;
When he [fn]aims his arrows, let them be as [fn]headless shafts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:1 - A Psalm of David, [fn]when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
O God, You are my God; I shall seek You [fn]earnestly;
My soul thirsts for You, my flesh [fn]yearns for You,
In a dry and weary land where there is no water. H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:9 - You visit the earth and cause it to overflow;
You greatly enrich it;
The [fn]stream of God is full of water; H4325
You prepare their grain, for thus You prepare [fn]the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:12 - You made men ride over our heads;
We went through fire and through water, H4325
Yet You brought us out into a place of abundance.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:1 - For the choir director; according to [fn]Shoshannim. A Psalm of David.
Save me, O God,
For the waters H4325 have [fn]threatened my life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:2 - I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters, H4325 and a [fn]flood overflows me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:14 - Deliver me from the mire and do not let me sink;
May I be delivered from [fn]my foes and from the [fn]deep waters. H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15 - May the [fn]flood of water H4325 not overflow me
Nor the deep swallow me up,
Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:10 - Therefore [fn]his people return to this place,
And waters H4325 of abundance are [fn]drunk by them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:13 - [fn]You divided the sea by Your strength;
[fn]You broke the heads of the sea monsters [fn]in the waters. H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:16 - The waters H4325 saw You, O God;
The waters H4325 saw You, they were in anguish;
The deeps also trembled.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:17 - The clouds poured out water; H4325
The skies gave forth a sound;
Your arrows [fn]flashed here and there.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:19 - Your way was in the sea
And Your paths in the mighty waters, H4325
And Your footprints may not be known.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:13 - He divided the sea and caused them to pass through,
And He made the waters H4325 stand up like a heap.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:16 - He brought forth streams also from the rock
And caused waters H4325 to run down like rivers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:20 - “Behold, He struck the rock so that waters H4325 gushed out,
And streams were overflowing;
Can He give bread also?
Will He provide [fn]meat for His people?”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:3 - They have poured out their blood like water H4325 round about Jerusalem;
And there was no one to bury them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:7 - “You called in trouble and I rescued you;
I answered you in the hiding place of thunder;
I proved you at the waters H4325 of Meribah. [fn]Selah.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:17 - They have surrounded me like water H4325 all day long;
They have encompassed me altogether.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 93:4 - More than the sounds of many waters, H4325
Than the mighty breakers of the sea,
The LORD on high is mighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:3 - [fn]He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; H4325
[fn]He makes the clouds His chariot;
[fn]He walks upon the wings of the wind;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:6 - You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
The waters H4325 were standing above the mountains.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:29 - He turned their waters H4325 into blood
And caused their fish to die.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:41 - He opened the [fn]rock and water H4325 flowed out;
[fn]It ran in the dry places like a river.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:11 - The waters H4325 covered their adversaries;
Not one of them was left.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:32 - They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters H4325 of [fn]Meribah,
So that it went hard with Moses on their account;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:23 - Those who go down to the sea in ships,
Who do business on great waters; H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:33 - He [fn]changes rivers into a [fn]wilderness
And springs of water H4325 into a thirsty ground;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:35 - He [fn]changes a [fn]wilderness into a pool of water H4325
And a dry land into springs of water; H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18 - But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
And it entered into [fn]his body like water H4325
And like oil into his bones.

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