Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H8064: שָׁמַיִם (shâmayim) Definition

Strong's number
H8064
Lemma
שָׁמַיִם
Transliteration
shâmayim
Pronunciation
shaw-mah'-yim
Strong's definition
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve) air, [idiom] astrologer, heaven(-s). dual of an unused singular שָׁמֶה; from an unused root meaning to be lofty;

395 instances of the word שָׁמַיִם shâmayim (H8064)


  • Nahum 3:16 - Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven the cankerworm spoileth and flieth away

  • Nehemiah 1:4 - And it came to pass when I heard these words that I sat down and wept and mourned certain days and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven

  • Nehemiah 1:5 - And said I beseech thee O LORD God of heaven God the great and terrible him and observe covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments

  • Nehemiah 1:9 - But if ye turn unto me and keep my commandments and do them though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven yet will I gather them from thence and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name

  • Nehemiah 2:4 - said Then the king unto me For what dost thou make request So I prayed to the God of heaven

  • Nehemiah 2:20 - Then answered I them and said unto them The God of heaven he will prosper us therefore we his servants will arise and build but ye have no portion nor right nor memorial in Jerusalem

  • 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 9:13 - also upon mount Sinai Thou camest down and spakest with them from heaven and gavest judgments them right laws and true statutes and commandments good

  • Nehemiah 9:15 - them bread from heaven And gavest for their hunger water for them out of the rock and broughtest forth for their thirst and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn And gavest

  • Nehemiah 9:23 - Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers and broughtest to possess

  • Nehemiah 9:27 - Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies who vexed them and in the time of their trouble when they cried them from heaven unto thee thou heardest mercies and according to thy manifold Therefore thou deliveredst them saviours them saviours them into the hand of their enemies

  • Nehemiah 9:28 - But after they had rest again they did evil before thee therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies so that they had the dominion again and cried them from heaven unto thee thou heardest didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies and many times

  • Proverbs 3:19 - The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth hath he established the heavens by understanding

  • Proverbs 8:27 - When he prepared the heavens I was there when he set a compass upon the face of the depth

  • Proverbs 23:5 - Wilt thou set thine eyes make make themselves wings as an eagle Wilt thou set toward heaven

  • Proverbs 25:3 - The heaven for height and the earth for depth and the heart of kings is unsearchable

  • Proverbs 30:4 - Who hath ascended up into heaven or descended who hath gathered the wind in his fists who hath bound the waters in a garment who hath established all the ends of the earth name name and what is his son's if thou canst tell

  • 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 2:4 - He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh the Lord shall have them in derision

  • Psalms 8:1 - O LORD our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth who hast set thy glory above the heavens