Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H3220: יָם (yâm) Definition

Strong's number
H3220
Lemma
יָם
Transliteration
yâm
Pronunciation
yawm
Strong's definition
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 ([idiom] -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward). from an unused root meaning to roar;

339 instances of the word יָם yâm (H3220)


  • Jeremiah 52:20 - pillars The two sea one bulls The two brasen that were under the bases had made which king Solomon in the house of the LORD was without weight brasen of all these vessels

  • Job 6:3 - than the sand of the sea For now it would be heavier therefore my words are swallowed up

  • Job 7:12 - Am I a sea or a whale that thou settest a watch

  • Job 9:8 - Which alone spreadeth out the heavens and treadeth upon the waves of the sea

  • Job 11:9 - thereof is longer than the earth The measure and broader than the sea

  • Job 12:8 - Or speak to the earth and it shall teach shall declare thee and the fishes of the sea

  • Job 14:11 - fail As the waters from the sea and the flood decayeth and drieth up

  • Job 26:12 - with his power He divideth the sea and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud

  • Job 28:14 - The depth saith It is not in me and the sea saith

  • Job 36:30 - Behold he spreadeth his light the bottom of the sea upon it and covereth

  • Job 38:8 - Or who shut up with doors the sea when it brake forth of the womb as if it had issued out

  • Job 38:16 - Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea in the search of the depth or hast thou walked

  • Job 41:31 - to boil like a pot He maketh the deep the sea he maketh like a pot of ointment

  • Joel 2:20 - from you the northern But I will remove far off army and will drive him into a land barren and desolate with his face sea toward the east and his hinder part sea toward the utmost shall come up and his stink shall come up and his ill savour great things because he hath done

  • Jonah 1:4 - But the LORD sent out wind a great in the sea tempest a great in the sea so that the ship was like to be broken

  • Jonah 1:5 - were afraid Then the mariners and cried every man unto his god and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea to lighten it of them But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship and he lay and was fast asleep

  • Jonah 1:9 - And he said unto them I am an Hebrew the LORD the God of heaven and I fear which hath made the sea and the dry

  • Jonah 1:11 - Then said they unto him What shall we do may be calm unto thee that the sea unto thee that the sea wrought and was tempestuous

  • Jonah 1:12 - And he said unto them Take me up and cast me forth into the sea be calm into the sea unto you for I know that for my sake tempest this great

  • Jonah 1:13 - rowed hard Nevertheless the men to bring it to the land but they could not for the sea wrought and was tempestuous