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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 7 / 7 (Eze 48:26–Zec 14:8)

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:26 - “Beside the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west H3220 side, Zebulun, one portion.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:27 - “Beside the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west H3220 side, Gad, one portion.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:28 - “And beside the border of Gad, at the south side toward the south, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the Great Sea H3220.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:34 - “On the west H3220 side, 4,500 cubits, shall be three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; and the gate of Naphtali, one.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:4 - I saw the ram butting westward H3220, northward, and southward, and no other beasts could stand against him nor was there anyone to rescue from his [fn]power, but he did as he pleased and made himself great.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:45 - “And he will pitch the tents of his royal pavilion between the seas H3220 and the beautiful Holy Mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:10 -

[fn]Yet the number of the sons of Israel

Will be like the sand of the sea H3220,

Which cannot be measured or counted;

And in the place

Where it is said to them,

“You are not My people,”

It will be said to them,

You are the sons of the living God.”

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:3 -

Therefore the land mourns,

And everyone who lives in it languishes

Along with the animals of the field and the birds of the sky,

And even the fish of the sea H3220 [fn]disappear.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:10 -

They will walk after the LORD,

He will roar like a lion;

Indeed He will roar,

And His sons will come trembling from the west H3220.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:20 -

“But I will remove the northern army far from you,

And I will drive it into a dry and desolate land,

Its advance guard into the eastern sea H3220,

And its rear guard into the western sea H3220.

And its stench will ascend and its odor of decay will come up,

Because it has done great things.”

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:8 -

He who made the Pleiades and Orion,

And changes deep darkness into morning,

[fn]Who also darkens day into night,

Who calls for the waters of the sea H3220

And pours them out on the surface of the earth,

The LORD is His name.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:12 -

“People will stagger from sea H3220 to sea H3220

And from the north even to the east;

They will roam about to seek the word of the LORD,

But they will not find it.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:3 -

“And though they hide on the summit of Carmel,

I will track them down and take them from there;

And though they hide themselves from My sight on the bottom of the sea H3220,

I will command the serpent from there, and it will bite them.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:6 -

The One who builds His upper chambers in the heavens

And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth,

He who calls for the waters of the sea H3220

And pours them out on the face of the earth,

The LORD is His name.

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:4 -

However, the LORD hurled a great wind on the sea H3220 and there was a great storm on the sea H3220, so that the ship was about to [fn]break up.

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:5 - Then the sailors became afraid and every man cried out to his [fn]god, and they hurled the [fn]cargo which was in the ship into the sea H3220 to lighten it [fn]for them. But Jonah had gone below into the stern of the ship, had lain down, and fallen sound asleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:9 - So he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD God of heaven who made the sea H3220 and the dry land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:11 - So they said to him, “What should we do to you so that the sea H3220 will become calm [fn]for us?”—for the sea H3220 was becoming increasingly stormy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:12 - And he said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea H3220. Then the sea H3220 will become calm [fn]for you, because I know that on account of me this great storm has come upon you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:13 - However, the men [fn]rowed desperately to return to land, but they could not, because the sea H3220 was becoming even stormier against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:15 -

So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea H3220, and the sea H3220 stopped its raging.

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:3 -

“For You threw me into the deep,

Into the heart of the seas H3220,

And the current flowed around me.

All Your breakers and waves passed over me.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:12 -

It will be a day when [fn]they will come to you

From Assyria and the cities of Egypt,

From Egypt even to the Euphrates River,

Even from sea H3220 to sea H3220 and mountain to mountain.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:19 -

He will again take pity on us;

He will trample on our wrongdoings.

Yes, You will cast all [fn]their sins

Into the depths of the sea H3220.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:4 -

He rebukes the sea H3220 and dries it up;

He dries up all the rivers.

Bashan and Carmel wither,

The blossoms of Lebanon wither.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:8 -

Are you better than [fn]No-amon,

Which was situated by the canals of the Nile,

With water surrounding her,

Whose rampart was [fn]the sea H3220,

Whose wall consisted of [fn]the sea H3220?

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:14 -

Why have You made people like the fish of the sea H3220,

Like crawling things that have no ruler over them?

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:14 -

“For the earth will be filled

With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD,

As the waters cover the sea H3220.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:8 -

Did the LORD rage against the rivers,

Or was Your anger against the rivers,

Or was Your rage against the sea H3220,

That You rode on Your horses,

On Your chariots of salvation?

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:15 -

You trampled on the sea H3220 with Your horses,

On the foam of many waters.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:3 -

“I will remove human and animal life;

I will remove the birds of the sky

And the fish of the sea H3220,

And the [fn]ruins along with the wicked;

And I will eliminate mankind from the face of the [fn]earth,” declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:5 -

Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast H3220,

The nation of the [fn]Cherethites!

The word of the LORD is against you,

Canaan, land of the Philistines;

And I will eliminate you

So that there will be no inhabitant.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:6 -

So the seacoast H3220 will become grazing places,

With pastures for shepherds and folds for flocks.

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:6 - “For this is what the LORD of armies says: ‘Once more [fn]in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea H3220 also and the dry land.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:4 -

Behold, the Lord will dispossess her

And throw her wealth into the sea H3220;

And she will be consumed with fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:10 -

And I will eliminate the chariot from Ephraim

And the horse from Jerusalem;

And the bow of war will be eliminated.

And He will speak peace to the nations;

And His dominion will be from sea H3220 to sea H3220,

And from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11 -

“And they will pass through the sea H3220 of distress

And He will strike the waves in the sea H3220,

So that all the depths of the Nile will dry up;

And the pride of Assyria will be brought down,

And the scepter of Egypt will depart.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:4 - On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split [fn]in its middle from east to west H3220 forming a very large valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and the other half toward the south.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:8 -

And on that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea H3220 and the other half toward the western sea H3220; it will be in summer as well as in winter.


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