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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 48 times in 40 verses in 'Eze' in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:24 - I also heard the sound of their wings like the sound of abundant waters H4325 as they went, like the voice of [fn]the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army camp; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:11 - “The water H4325 you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:16 - Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water H4325 by measure and in horror,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:17 - because bread and water H4325 will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:17 - ‘All hands will hang limp and all knees will [fn]become like water. H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:18 - “Son of man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water H4325 with quivering and anxiety.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:19 - “Then say to the people of the land, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel, “They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water H4325 with horror, because [fn]their land will be [fn]stripped of its fullness on account of the violence of all who live in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:4 - “As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water H4325 for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:9 - “Then I bathed you with water, H4325 washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:5 - “He also took some of the seed of the land and planted it in [fn]fertile soil. He [fn]placed it beside abundant waters; H4325 he set it like a willow.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:8 - “It was planted in good [fn]soil beside abundant waters, H4325 that it might yield branches and bear fruit and become a splendid vine.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:10 - ‘Your mother was like a vine in your [fn]vineyard,
Planted by the waters; H4325
It was fruitful and full of branches
Because of abundant waters. H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:7 - “And when they say to you, ‘Why do you groan?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news that is coming; and every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will [fn]faint and all knees will [fn]be weak as water. H4325 Behold, it comes and it will happen,’ declares the Lord [fn]GOD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:3 - “Speak a parable to the rebellious house and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord [fn]GOD,
“Put on the pot, put it on and also pour water H4325 in it;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12 - “Also they will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of your merchandise, break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses, and [fn]throw your stones and your timbers and your debris into the water. H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 - For thus says the Lord GOD, “When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters H4325 cover you,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:26 - “Your rowers have brought you
Into great waters; H4325
The east wind has broken you
In the heart of the seas.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:34 - [fn]Now that you are broken by the seas
In the depths of the waters, H4325
Your merchandise and all your company
Have fallen in the midst of you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4 - ‘The waters H4325 made it grow, the [fn]deep made it high.
With its rivers it continually [fn]extended all around its planting place,
And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:5 - ‘Therefore its height was loftier than all the trees of the field
And its boughs became many and its branches long
Because of many waters H4325 [fn]as it spread them out.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:7 - ‘So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches;
For its [fn]roots extended to many waters. H4325
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:14 - so that all the trees by the waters H4325 may not be exalted in their stature, nor set their top among the [fn]clouds, nor their [fn]well-watered mighty ones stand erect in their height. For they have all been given over to death, to the earth beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15 - ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “On the day when it went down to Sheol I caused lamentations; I closed the [fn]deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters H4325 were stopped up, and I made Lebanon [fn]mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:16 - “I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I made it go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the [fn]well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2 - “Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him,
‘You [fn]compared yourself to a young lion of the nations,
Yet you are like the monster in the seas;
And you burst forth in your rivers
And muddied the waters H4325 with your feet
And [fn]fouled their rivers.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:13 - “I will also destroy all its cattle from beside many waters; H4325
And the foot of man will not muddy them anymore
And the hoofs of beasts will not muddy them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:14 - “Then I will make their waters H4325 settle
And will cause their rivers to run like oil,”
Declares the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:18 - ‘Is it too slight a thing for you that you should feed in the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? Or that you should drink of the clear waters, H4325 that you must [fn]foul the rest with your feet?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:25 - “Then I will sprinkle clean water H4325 on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:2 - and behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the way of the east. And His voice was like the sound of many waters; H4325 and the earth shone with His glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:1 - Then he brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, water H4325 was flowing from under the threshold of the house toward the east, for the house faced east. And the water H4325 was flowing down from under, from the right side of the house, from south of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:2 - He brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around [fn]on the outside to the outer gate by way of the gate that faces east. And behold, water H4325 was trickling from the south side.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3 - When the man went out toward the east with a line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits, and he led me through the water, H4325 water H4325 reaching the ankles.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:4 - Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, H4325 water H4325 reaching the knees. Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water H4325 reaching the loins.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:5 - Again he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not ford, for the water H4325 had risen, enough water H4325 to swim in, a river that could not be forded.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:8 - Then he said to me, “These waters H4325 go out toward the eastern region and go down into the Arabah; then they go toward the sea, being made to flow into the sea, and the waters H4325 of the sea become [fn]fresh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:9 - “It will come about that every living creature which swarms in every place where the [fn]river goes, will live. And there will be very many fish, for these waters H4325 go there and the others [fn]become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:12 - “By the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They will bear every month because their water H4325 flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:19 - “The south side toward the south shall extend from Tamar as far as the waters H4325 of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt and to the Great Sea. This is the south side toward the south.
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 H4325 of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the Great Sea.
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