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)


  • Joshua 23:4 - Behold I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain to be an inheritance for your tribes from Jordan unto you by lot these nations that I have cut off sea even unto the great westward

  • Joshua 24:6 - And I brought your fathers and the Egyptians and ye came sea pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen sea unto the Red

  • Joshua 24:7 - And when they cried unto the LORD he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and brought the sea upon them and covered have seen them and your eyes what I have done in Egypt and ye dwelt in the wilderness season a long

  • Judges 5:17 - Gilead beyond Jordan abode and why did Dan remain in ships Asher continued shore on the sea in his breaches abode

  • Judges 7:12 - And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude and their camels were without number as the sand side by the sea for multitude

  • Judges 11:16 - came up from Egypt But when Israel through the wilderness sea unto the Red and came to Kadesh

  • Lamentations 2:13 - for thee what thing What thing shall I take to witness for thee what thing shall I liken daughter of Jerusalem for thee what thing what shall I equal to thee that I may comfort thee O virgin daughter of Zion is great like the sea for thy breach who can heal

  • Leviticus 11:9 - These shall ye eat in the waters whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters in the seas and in the rivers These shall ye eat

  • Leviticus 11:10 - And all that have not fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers of all that move in the waters thing and of any living in the waters they shall be an abomination

  • Micah 7:12 - In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria cities and from the fortified even to the river and from sea and from sea and from mountain and from mountain

  • Micah 7:19 - He will turn again he will have compassion upon us he will subdue our iniquities and thou wilt cast into the depths of the sea all their sins

  • Nahum 1:4 - He rebuketh the sea and drieth up all the rivers and maketh it dry languisheth Bashan and Carmel and the flower of Lebanon languisheth

  • Nahum 3:8 - Art thou better No than populous that was situate among the rivers that had the waters round about it whose rampart was from the sea was from the sea and her wall

  • Nehemiah 9:6 - Thou even thou art LORD alone thou hast made heaven heaven heaven them all and the host the earth and all things that are therein the seas and all that is therein and thou preservest them all and the host heaven worshippeth

  • Nehemiah 9:9 - And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt their cry and heardest sea by the Red

  • Nehemiah 9:11 - of the sea And thou didst divide before them so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps as a stone waters into the mighty

  • Numbers 2:18 - shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies On the west side and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama of the sons of Ammihud

  • Numbers 3:23 - The families of the Gershonites behind the tabernacle shall pitch westward

  • Numbers 11:22 - Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them to suffice them or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them to suffice

  • Numbers 11:31 - a wind And there went forth from the LORD and brought quails from the sea and let them fall by the camp journey and as it were a day's on the other side journey and as it were a day's on the other side round about by the camp and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth