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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 53 times in 49 verses in 'Psa' in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 1:3 -

And 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 Yahweh,

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 Yahweh is upon the waters H4325;

The God of glory thunders,

Yahweh is over [fn]many waters H4325.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:6 -

Therefore, let every holy one pray to You [fn]at 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 [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 lofty 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 without 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 establish their grain, for thus You establish [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. 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 clay, 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 here, to his place,

And waters H4325 of fullness are [fn]drunk by them.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:13 -

You divided the sea by Your strength;

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 went here and there.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:19 -

Your way was in the sea

And Your paths in the mighty waters H4325,

But Your footprints were not known.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:13 -

He split 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 cliff face

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 prepare [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 distress and I rescued you;

I answered you in the hiding place of thunder;

I tested 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 voices of many waters H4325,

Than the mighty breakers of the sea,

Yahweh on high is mighty.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:3 -

[fn]He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters H4325;

[fn]He sets up the clouds to be 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 badly with Moses on their account;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:23 -

Those who go down to the sea in ships,

Who do business on many waters H4325;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:33 -

He [fn]makes rivers into a [fn]wilderness

And springs of water H4325 into a thirsty ground;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:35 -

He makes a 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 his garment,

And it came into his inward parts like water H4325

And like oil into his bones.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:8 -

Who turned the rock into a pool of water H4325,

The flint into a spring of water H4325.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:136 -

My eyes [fn]shed streams of water H4325,

Because they do not keep Your law.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:4 -

Then the waters H4325 would have flowed over us,

The stream would have [fn]swept over our soul;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:5 -

Then the raging waters H4325 would have [fn]swept over our soul.”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:6 -

To Him who spread out the earth above the waters H4325,

For His lovingkindness endures forever;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:7 -

Send forth Your hand from on high;

Set me free and deliver me out of many waters H4325,

Out of the hand of foreigners

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:18 -

He sends forth His word and melts them;

He causes His wind to blow and so the waters H4325 flow,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:4 -

Praise Him, heavens of heavens,

And the waters H4325 that are above the heavens!

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