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)


  • Numbers 13:29 - The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites dwell in the mountains and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and by the coast of Jordan

  • Numbers 14:25 - Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley To morrow turn you and get you into the wilderness by the way sea of the Red

  • Numbers 21:4 - And they journeyed Hor from mount because of the way sea of the Red to compass the land of Edom was much discouraged and the soul of the people because of the way

  • Numbers 33:8 - And they departed from before Pihahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea in the wilderness journey three days in the wilderness of Etham and pitched in Marah

  • Numbers 33:10 - And they removed from Elim and encamped sea by the Red

  • Numbers 33:11 - And they removed sea from the Red and encamped in the wilderness of Sin

  • Numbers 34:3 - quarter Then your south shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom border Then your south shall be the outmost coast sea of the salt eastward

  • Numbers 34:5 - shall fetch a compass And the border from Azmon unto the river of Egypt and the goings out of it shall be at the sea

  • Numbers 34:6 - border And as for the western And as for the western ye shall even have the great border border And as for the western

  • Numbers 34:7 - border And this shall be your north sea from the great ye shall point out Hor for you mount

  • Numbers 34:11 - shall descend And the coast from Shepham to Riblah eastward of Ain shall descend And the coast and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward

  • Numbers 34:12 - shall go down And the border to Jordan and the goings out sea of it shall be at the salt this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about

  • Numbers 35:5 - And ye shall measure from without and the city side on the east two thousand cubits side and on the south two thousand cubits side and on the west two thousand cubits side and on the north two thousand cubits and the city shall be in the midst this shall be to them the suburbs and the city

  • Proverbs 8:29 - When he gave to the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment when he appointed the foundations of the earth

  • Proverbs 23:34 - Yea thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea Yea thou shalt be as he that lieth down upon the top of a mast

  • Proverbs 30:19 - The way of an eagle in the air The way of a serpent upon a rock The way of a ship in the midst of the sea The way of a man with a maid

  • Psalms 8:8 - The fowl of the air and the fish of the sea and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea

  • Psalms 24:2 - it upon the seas For he hath founded it upon the floods and established

  • Psalms 33:7 - He gathereth together as an heap the waters of the sea he layeth up in storehouses the depth

  • Psalms 46:2 - Therefore will not we fear be removed though the earth be carried and though the mountains into the midst of the sea