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)


  • Genesis 13:14 - And the LORD said unto Abram after was separated that Lot from him Lift up now thine eyes and look from the place where thou art northward and southward and eastward and westward

  • Genesis 14:3 - All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim which sea is the salt

  • Genesis 22:17 - I will bless I will bless I will multiply I will multiply and thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand shore which is upon the sea shall possess and thy seed the gate of his enemies

  • Genesis 28:14 - And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and thou shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south be blessed shall all the families of the earth And thy seed

  • Genesis 32:12 - And thou saidst I will surely I will surely and make thy seed as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for multitude

  • Genesis 41:49 - gathered And Joseph corn as the sand of the sea much very until he left numbering for it was without number

  • Genesis 49:13 - Zebulun and he shall be for an haven of the sea shall dwell and he shall be for an haven of ships and his border shall be unto Zidon

  • Habakkuk 1:14 - And makest men as the fishes of the sea as the creeping things that have no ruler

  • Habakkuk 2:14 - shall be filled For the earth with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea

  • Habakkuk 3:8 - against the rivers displeased Was the LORD against the rivers was thine anger against the sea was thy wrath that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation

  • Habakkuk 3:15 - Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses through the heap waters of great

  • Haggai 2:6 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts Yet once it is a little while and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry

  • Hosea 1:10 - Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured nor numbered and it shall come to pass that in the place there it shall be said unto them Ye are not my people there it shall be said of the children God of the living

  • Hosea 4:3 - mourn Therefore shall the land therein shall languish and every one that dwelleth with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven yea the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away

  • Hosea 11:10 - after the LORD like a lion he shall roar he shall roar shall tremble then the children from the west

  • Isaiah 5:30 - they shall roar And in that day against them like the roaring of the sea and if one look unto the land behold darkness and sorrow and the light is darkened in the heavens

  • Isaiah 9:1 - Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation when at the first he lightly afflicted and the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea beyond Jordan in Galilee of the nations

  • Isaiah 10:22 - For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea yet a remnant of them shall return the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness

  • Isaiah 10:26 - shall stir up And the LORD of hosts a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb and as his rod was upon the sea so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt

  • Isaiah 11:9 - They shall not hurt nor destroy mountain in all my holy shall be full for the earth of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters the sea cover