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Lexicon :: Strong's H8064 - šāmayim

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שָׁמַיִם
Transliteration
šāmayim
Pronunciation
shaw-mah'-yim
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to be lofty
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2407a

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁמַיִם shâmayim, shaw-mah'-yim; dual of an unused singular שָׁמֶה shâmeh; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve):—air, × astrologer, heaven(-s).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 420x

The KJV translates Strong's H8064 in the following manner: heaven (398x), air (21x), astrologers (with H1895) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 420x
The KJV translates Strong's H8064 in the following manner: heaven (398x), air (21x), astrologers (with H1895) (1x).
  1. heaven, heavens, sky

    1. visible heavens, sky

      1. as abode of the stars

      2. as the visible universe, the sky, atmosphere, etc

    2. Heaven (as the abode of God)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁמַיִם shâmayim, shaw-mah'-yim; dual of an unused singular שָׁמֶה shâmeh; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve):—air, × astrologer, heaven(-s).
STRONGS H8064: Abbreviations
[שָׁמַי] noun masculineDeuteronomy 33:28 only plural שָׁמַ֫יִם 421 (Sta§324 a) heavens, sky (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian šamû plural šamê, šamûtu, also šamâmu, compare Phoenician שמם; Sabean סמה HomChr 46, 124; Arabic سَمَآءً Ethiopic ለማይ፡ Aramaic שְׁמַיָּא axYmw; Palmyrene, Nabataean שמ(י)ן in proper name (compounded with בעל) Lzb153 GACooke45; on plural form see BaZMG xiii (1888), 341 f.); — absolute שׁ׳ Genesis 1:1 +, מָ֑יִם - Genesis 2:4 +; הַשָּׁמַ֫יְמָה Exodus 9:8 +; construct שְׁמֵי Deuteronomy 10:14 + 9 times; suffix שָׁמֶיךָ Psalm 8:4 + 2 times, שָׁמָיו Deuteronomy 33:28, שְׁמֵיכֶם Leviticus 26:19, with verb plural, Hosea 2:23; —
1.
a. visible heavens, sky, where stars, etc., are Judges 5:20; Genesis 15:5 (J), Deuteronomy 4:19; Genesis 1:14, 15, 17 (P), hence כּוֺכְבֵי הַשּׁ׳ Genesis 22:17 (JE) = + 9 times (usually as countless), (כָּלֿ) צְבָא הַשּׁ׳ Deuteronomy 4:19; Jeremiah 8:2 + (צ׳1c; rarely of angels, צ׳1b; before which fowl fly Genesis 1:20 (P), compare Deuteronomy 4:17; Jeremiah 8:7; Proverbs 30:19, עוֺף הַשּׁ׳ Genesis 2:19 (J), Genesis 1:19 (P) + (עוֺף 1), שׁ׳ צִפֹּרPsalm 8:9, נִשְׁרֵי שׁ׳Lamentations 4:19; as רָקִיע (which see) Genesis 1:8 (P), Psalm 19:2, with waters beneath and above Genesis 1:9 (P, compare Genesis 1:7), Psalm 148:4, darkened with clouds 1 Kings 18:45, cleared by wind Job 26:13; whence comes rain Genesis 8:2 (J), Judges 5:4; Deuteronomy 11:11 +, and dew Genesis 27:28 (J), Genesis 27:39 (E), Deuteronomy 33:28 (poem) +. compare בִּרְכֹת שׁ׳Genesis 49:25 (poem in J), מֶגֶר שׁ׳Deuteronomy 33:13 (poem), but also (destructive) fire 2 Kings 1:10 (twice in verse); Job 1:16 + (see also 2a below); הֹבְרֵישׁ׳ Isaiah 47:13, i.e. astrologers, compare אוֺתוֺתהַשּׁ׳ Jeremiah 10:2; as high Genesis 11:4 (J), Amos 9:2 (opposed to שְׁאוֺל), Genesis 11:6 (opposed to אֶרֶץ) +, עַדלֵֿב הַשּׁ׳ Deuteronomy 4:11;as over all the earth, תַּחַת (כָּלֿ)הַשּׁ׳ Genesis 6:17; Genesis 7:19 (both P), Deuteronomy 2:25; Ecclesiastes 1:13 מִתַּחַת וגו׳ (of extermination) Exodus 17:14 (E), Deuteronomy 7:24; Deuteronomy 9:14 +; specifically of Israel, שָׁמֶיךָ Deuteronomy 28:23, שְׁמֵיכֶם Leviticus 26:19 (H); וּבֵין הָאָרֶץ בֵּין הַשּׁ׳ 2 Samuel 18:9 (hung from tree), 1 Chronicles 21:16 (of angel), compare Ezekiel 8:3 (Ezekiel in vision), Zechariah 5:9 (flying ephah); וְעַדקְֿצֵה מִקְּצֵה הַשּׁ׳ הַשּׁ׳ of limits of horizon Deuteronomy 4:32, compare Deuteronomy 30:4; Nehemiah 1:9; Psalm 19:7 as made by God Jeremiah 51:15 (opposed to תֵּבֵל), Psalm 8:4Deuteronomy 11:21; Job 14:12; Psalm 89:30; especiallyוְ(הָ)אָרֶץ (הַ)שּׁ׳ = universe (compare in Sabean, SabDenkmNo.41.42, l.3) Deuteronomy 3:24 Genesis 1:1 (P) + (especially Deuteronomy, Isa2, Psalms), + הַיָם Exodus 20:11; Haggai 2:6, etc., + מַיִם מִתַּחַת לָאָרֶץ Exodus 20:4= Deuteronomy 5:8,.compare Proverbs 30:4, etc.; opposed to תְּהוֺם Proverbs 8:27 (+ אֶרֶץ Proverbs 8:29) חֲרָשִׁים וְהָאָרֶץ חֲרָשָׁה שׁ׳ as part of future glory Isaiah 65:17; Isaiah 66:22.
b. phrases are: אֲרֻבּוֺת הַשּׁ׳ (letting rain through) †Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:2 (P), Malachi 3:10 (figurative), compare בַּשּׁ׳ א׳ הֲיַעֲשֶׂה י׳ 2 Kings 7:2, 19, so דַּלְתֵי שׁ׳Psalm 78:23 (for manna), compare דְָּגַן שׁ׳, Psalm 78:24, לֶחֶם שׁ׳Psalm 105:40; מוֺסְדוֺת הַשּׁ׳ 2 Samuel 22:8 (|| הָאָרֶץ; in || Psalm 18:8 חָרִים מ׳), עַמּוּרֵי שׁ׳ Job 26:11, חוּג שׁ׳ Job 22:14; towards the sky is הַשָּׁמַ֫יְמָה Joshua 8:20(J), Exodus 9:8, 10 (P), Job 2:12; Judges 13:20; Judges 20:40; 2 Chronicles 6:13; עַלהַֿשָּׁמַיִם Exodus 9:22, 23; Exodus 10:21, 22(all E), אֶלשֿׁ׳ Deuteronomy 32:40 (poem), Daniel 12:7, שׁ׳ alone 1 Kings 8:22, 54; Job 35:5; Proverbs 23:5.
2.
a. as abode of God (י׳) 1 Kings 8:30, 32Psalm 2:3; Isaiah 66:1, etc., compare רֹכֵבשׁ׳ Deuteronomy 33:26(poem), Psalm 68:34, whence he rains brimstone Genesis 19:24 (J), bread Exodus 16:4 (E), compare Nehemiah 9:15, casts hailstones Joshua 11:11 (E), talks with Israel Exodus 20:22 (E; Gi Exodus 20:19) +, compare Genesis 21:17; Genesis 22:11, 15 (E), looks down Deuteronomy 26:15 +, hears his people Psalm 20:7+ 10 times Chronicles, etc.; he thunders בַּשּׁ׳ 1 Samuel 2:10; Psalm 18:14,|| מִןשֿׁ׳ 2 Samuel 22:14; he bends (נטה) שׁ׳ to come down 2 Samuel 22:10= Psalm 18:10, compare Psalm 144:5 and (rend) Isaiah 63:19; נִמְּתְּחוּ הַשּׁ׳ Ezekiel 1:1 in vision of God, compare שַׁעַר הַשּׁ׳ Genesis 28:17 (E; + בֵּית אֱלֹהִים); though even שְׁמֵי הַשּׁ׳ the highest heuvens cannot hold him Deuteronomy 10:14; 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 6:18, 2 Chronicles 2:5; Nehemiah 9:6; Psalm 148:4, שְׁמֵי שְׁמֵיקֶֿדֶם Psalm 68:34; he is called אֱלֹהֵי הַשּׁ׳ (post-exilic title) Ezra 1:2 2 Chronicles 36:23; + 11 times Ezra Nehemiah; Jonah 1:9 (compare Aramaic, Daniel 2:18, 19, 37, 44; in Genesis 24:7 add with Greek Version of the LXX וֵאלֹהֵי הָאָרֶץ, as Genesis 24:3), אֵלהַֿשׁ׳ Psalm 136:26; his sword is בַּשׁ׳ Isaiah 34:5, but also his חֶסֶד Psalm 36:6, צֶדֶק Psalm 85:12, אֱמוּנָח Psalm 89:3, his word fixed Psalm 119:89. — שׁ׳ are † שָׁמָיו (of Israel) Deuteronomy 33:28 (poem), † שְׁמֵיכֶם Leviticus 26:19; † שָׁמֶיךָ Psalm 8:4; Psalm 144:5, שְׁמֵי י׳ Lamentations 3:66, † קָדְשׁוֺ שׁ׳ Psalm 20:7.
†b. Elijah taken up הַשּׁ׳ in whirlwind 2 Kings 2:1, compare 2 Kings 2:11.
3. הַשּׁ׳ personified in various relations Isaiah 1:2; Jeremiah 2:12; Job 15:15; Psalm 19:2; Psalm 50:6 = Psalm 97:6; Psalm 89:6; Psalm 148:4.
†4. מְלֶכֶת הַשּׁ׳ see מ׳.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H8065.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:1; 1:1; 1:7; 1:8; 1:9; 1:14; 1:15; 1:17; 1:19; 1:20; 2:4; 2:19; 6:17; 7:11; 7:19; 8:2; 8:2; 11:4; 11:6; 15:5; 19:24; 21:17; 22:11; 22:15; 22:17; 24:3; 24:7; 27:28; 27:39; 28:17; 49:25

Exodus

9:8; 9:8; 9:10; 9:22; 9:23; 10:21; 10:22; 16:4; 17:14; 20:4; 20:11; 20:19; 20:22

Leviticus

26:19; 26:19; 26:19

Deuteronomy

2:25; 3:24; 4:11; 4:17; 4:19; 4:19; 4:32; 5:8; 7:24; 9:14; 10:14; 10:14; 11:11; 11:21; 26:15; 28:23; 30:4; 32:40; 33:13; 33:26; 33:28; 33:28; 33:28; 33:28

Joshua

8:20; 11:11

Judges

5:4; 5:20; 13:20; 20:40

1 Samuel

2:10

2 Samuel

18:9; 22:8; 22:10; 22:14

1 Kings

8:22; 8:27; 8:30; 8:32; 8:54; 18:45

2 Kings

1:10; 2:1; 2:11; 7:2; 7:19

1 Chronicles

21:16

2 Chronicles

2:5; 6:13; 6:18; 36:23

Ezra

1:2

Nehemiah

1:9; 9:6; 9:15

Job

1:16; 2:12; 14:12; 15:15; 22:14; 26:11; 26:13; 35:5

Psalms

2:3; 8:4; 8:4; 8:4; 8:9; 18:8; 18:10; 18:14; 19:2; 19:2; 19:7; 20:7; 20:7; 36:6; 50:6; 68:34; 68:34; 78:23; 78:24; 85:12; 89:3; 89:6; 89:30; 97:6; 105:40; 119:89; 136:26; 144:5; 144:5; 148:4; 148:4; 148:4

Proverbs

8:27; 8:29; 23:5; 30:4; 30:19

Ecclesiastes

1:13

Isaiah

1:2; 34:5; 47:13; 63:19; 65:17; 66:1; 66:22

Jeremiah

2:12; 8:2; 8:7; 10:2; 51:15

Lamentations

3:66; 4:19

Ezekiel

1:1; 8:3

Daniel

2:18; 2:19; 2:37; 2:44; 12:7

Hosea

2:23

Amos

9:2

Jonah

1:9

Haggai

2:6

Zechariah

5:9

Malachi

3:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8064 matches the Hebrew שָׁמַיִם (šāmayim),
which occurs 421 times in 395 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 8 (Exo 24:10–Jdg 20:40)

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:10 - and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet [fn]there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, [fn]as clear as the sky H8064 itself.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:17 - “It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made heaven H8064 and earth, but on the seventh day He ceased from labor, and was refreshed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13 - “Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your [fn]descendants as the stars of the heavens H8064, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your [fn]descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:19 - ‘I will also break down your pride of power; and I will make your sky H8064 like iron and your earth like bronze.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10 - ‘The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven H8064 in number.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:28 - ‘Where can we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, by saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven H8064. And besides, we saw the sons of the Anakim there.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:25 - ‘This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the faces of [fn]people everywhere, [fn]who, when they hear the news of you, will tremble and be in anguish because of you.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:24 - ‘Lord [fn]GOD, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your strong hand; for what god is there in heaven H8064 or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as Yours?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:11 - “You came forward and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire to the heart of the heavens H8064: darkness, cloud, and thick gloom.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:17 - a representation of any animal that is on the earth, a representation of any winged bird that flies in the sky H8064,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:19 - “And be careful not to raise your eyes to heaven H8064 and look at the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the heavenly H8064 [fn]lights, and allow yourself to be drawn away and worship them and serve them, things which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven H8064.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:26 - I call heaven H8064 and earth as witnesses against you today, that you will certainly perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to take possession of it. You will not [fn]live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 -

“Indeed, ask now about the earlier days that were [fn]before your time, since the day that God created [fn]mankind on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens H8064 to the other H8064. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:36 - “Out of the heavens H8064 He let you hear His voice to discipline you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:39 - “Therefore know today, and take it to your heart, that the LORD, He is God in heaven H8064 above and on the earth below; there is no other.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8 -

‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any [fn]likeness of what is in heaven H8064 above [fn]or on the earth beneath [fn]or in the water under the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:24 - “And He will hand over their kings to you, so that you will eliminate their name from under heaven H8064; no one will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 -

“Hear, Israel! You are crossing the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities that are great and fortified to heaven H8064,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:14 - ‘Leave Me alone, that I may destroy them and wipe out their name from under heaven H8064; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:14 - “Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven H8064 and the [fn]highest H8064 heavens H8064, the earth and all that is in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:22 - “Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven H8064.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:11 - “But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven H8064,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - “Otherwise, the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the sky H8064 so that there will be no rain, and the ground will not yield its produce; then you will quickly perish from the good land which the LORD is giving you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:21 - so that your days and the days of your sons may be increased on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as [fn]long as the heavens H8064 are above the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:3 - and that person has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, the moon, or any of the heavenly H8064 [fn]lights, which I have commanded not to do,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:19 - “So it shall come about, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies in the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to [fn]possess, that you shall wipe out the mention of the name Amalek from under heaven H8064; you must not forget.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:15 - ‘Look down from Your holy dwelling place, from heaven H8064, and bless Your people Israel, and the ground which You have given us, a land flowing with milk and honey just as You swore to our fathers.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:12 - “The LORD will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens H8064, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless every work of your hand; and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:23 - [fn]The heaven H8064 which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24 - “The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven H8064 it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26 - “Your dead bodies will [fn]serve as food for all birds of the sky H8064 and for the animals of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - “Then you will be left few in [fn]number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven H8064, because you did not [fn]obey the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - “The LORD will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the LORD and His wrath will [fn]burn against that person, and every curse that is written in this book will lie upon him, and the LORD will wipe out his name from under heaven H8064.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:4 - “If any of your scattered countrymen are at the [fn]ends of the earth H8064, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there He will [fn]bring you back.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:12 - “It is not in heaven H8064, [fn]that you could say, ‘Who will go up to heaven H8064 for us and get it for us, and proclaim it to us, so that we may [fn]follow it?’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:19 - “I call heaven H8064 and earth to witness against you today, that I have placed before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your [fn]descendants,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:28 - “Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens H8064 and the earth as witnesses against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:1 -

“Listen, you heavens H8064, and I will speak;

And let the earth hear the words of my mouth!

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:40 -

‘Indeed, I raise My hand to heaven H8064,

And say, as I live forever,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:13 -

Of Joseph he said,

“Blessed of the LORD be his land,

With the choice things of heaven H8064, with the dew,

And from the deep waters lying beneath,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:26 -

“There is no one like the God of [fn]Jeshurun,

Who rides the heavens H8064 [fn]to your help,

And the clouds in His majesty.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:28 -

“So Israel lives in security,

The fountain of Jacob secluded,

In a land of grain and new wine;

His heavens H8064 also drip down dew.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:11 - “When we heard these reports, our hearts melted and no [fn]courage remained in anyone any longer because of you; for the LORD your God, He is God in heaven H8064 above and on earth below.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - When the men of Ai turned [fn]back and looked, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to the sky H8064, and they had no place to flee this way or that, for the people who had been fleeing to the wilderness turned against the pursuers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:11 - And as they fled from Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, the LORD hurled large stones from heaven H8064 on them as far as Azekah, and they died; there were more who died [fn]from the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:13 -

So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped,

Until the nation avenged themselves of their enemies.

Is it not written in the Book of Jashar? And the sun stopped in the middle of the sky H8064 and did not hurry to go down for about a whole day.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:4 -

“LORD, when You went out from Seir,

When You marched from the field of Edom,

The earth quaked, the heavens H8064 also dripped,

The clouds also dripped water.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:20 -

“The stars fought from heaven H8064,

From their paths they fought against Sisera.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:20 - For it came about when the flame went up from the altar toward heaven H8064, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:40 - But when the cloud began to rise from the city in a column of smoke, Benjamin looked behind them; and behold, the entire city was going up in smoke to heaven H8064.

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