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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 44 times in 38 verses in 'Exo' in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:10 - The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. And she named him [fn]Moses, and said, “Because I [fn]drew him out of the water.” H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:9 - “But if they will not believe even these two signs or heed what you say, then you shall take some water H4325 from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground; and the water H4325 which you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15 - “Go to Pharaoh in the morning [fn]as he is going out to the water, H4325 and station yourself to meet him on the bank of the Nile; and you shall take in your hand the staff that was turned into a serpent.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:17 - ‘Thus says the LORD, “By this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, I will strike [fn]the water H4325 that is in the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned to blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:18 - “The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will [fn]become foul, and the Egyptians will [fn]find difficulty in drinking water H4325 from the Nile.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters H4325 of Egypt, over their rivers, over their [fn]streams, and over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, H4325 that they may become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:20 - So Moses and Aaron did even as the LORD had commanded. And he lifted up [fn]the staff and struck the water H4325 that was in the Nile, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water H4325 that was in the Nile was turned to blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:21 - The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile [fn]became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water H4325 from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:24 - So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water H4325 to drink, for they could not drink of the water H4325 of the Nile.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:6 - So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters H4325 of Egypt, and the [fn]frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:20 - Now the LORD said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh, [fn]as he comes out to the water, H4325 and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:9 - ‘Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, H4325 but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:21 - Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD [fn]swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land, so the waters H4325 were divided.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:22 - The sons of Israel [fn]went through the midst of the sea on the dry land, and the waters H4325 were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:26 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters H4325 may come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots and their horsemen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:28 - The waters H4325 returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, [fn]even Pharaoh’s entire army that had gone into the sea after them; not even one of them remained.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:29 - But the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea, and the waters H4325 were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8 - “At the blast of Your nostrils the waters H4325 were piled up,
The flowing waters H4325 stood up like a heap;
The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:10 - “You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them;
They sank like lead in the [fn]mighty waters. H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:19 - For the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters H4325 of the sea on them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - Then Moses [fn]led Israel from the [fn]Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water. H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:23 - When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters H4325 [fn]of Marah, for they were [fn]bitter; therefore it was named [fn]Marah.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:25 - Then he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, H4325 and the waters H4325 became sweet. There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:27 - Then they came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water H4325 and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters. H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:1 - Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed by [fn]stages from the wilderness of Sin, according to the [fn]command of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, and there was no water H4325 for the people to drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:2 - Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water H4325 that we may drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:3 - But the people thirsted there for water; H4325 and [fn]they grumbled against Moses and said, “Why, now, have you brought us up from Egypt, to kill [fn]us and [fn]our children and [fn]our livestock with thirst?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:6 - “Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water H4325 will come out of it, that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4 - “You shall not make for yourself [fn]an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water H4325 under the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:25 - “But you shall serve the LORD your God, [fn]and He will bless your bread and your water; H4325 and I will remove sickness from your midst.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:4 - “Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the doorway of the tent of meeting and wash them with water. H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:18 - “You shall also make a laver of [fn]bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing; and you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water H4325 in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:20 - when they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, H4325 so that they will not die; or when they approach the altar to minister, by offering up in smoke a fire sacrifice to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:20 - He took the calf which they had made and burned it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it over the surface of the water H4325 and made the sons of Israel drink it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. H4325 And [fn]he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten [fn]Commandments.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:7 - “You shall set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water H4325 [fn]in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:12 - “Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the doorway of the tent of meeting and wash them with water. H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:30 - He placed the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water H4325 in it for washing.
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