H3220 · יָם
yâm · yawm · sea, west
H3220 (yâm, pronounced yawm) is the Hebrew word יָם in Strong’s dictionary: a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water. It appears 396 times in 339 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- יָם (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- yâm
- Pronunciation
- yawm
- Derivation
- from an unused root meaning to roar;
- 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
- Rendered in the KJV
- sea ([idiom] -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
396 occurrences in 339 verses (381 with English words of their own, 15 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “the sea” ×59
- “Sea” ×49
- “of the sea” ×46
- “the Sea” ×21
- “west” ×17
- “to the west” ×12
- “of the seas” ×9
- “on the west” ×8
By book
Genesis 13 · Exodus 28 · Leviticus 2 · Numbers 17 · Deuteronomy 12 · Joshua 41 · Judges 3 · 1 Samuel 1 · 2 Samuel 2 · 1 Kings 13 · 2 Kings 4 · 1 Chronicles 3 · 2 Chronicles 10 · Ezra 1 · Nehemiah 3 · Esther 1 · Job 12 · Psalms 35 · Proverbs 3 · Ecclesiastes 1 · Isaiah 29 · Jeremiah 17 · Lamentations 1 · Ezekiel 52 · Daniel 2 · Hosea 3 · Joel 1 · Amos 4 · Jonah 8 · Micah 2 · Nahum 2 · Habakkuk 4 · Zephaniah 3 · Haggai 1 · Zechariah 5
First 30 of 339 verses
- Genesis 1:10
- Genesis 1:22
- Genesis 1:26
- Genesis 1:28
- Genesis 9:2
- Genesis 12:8
- Genesis 13:14
- Genesis 14:3
- Genesis 22:17
- Genesis 28:14
- Genesis 32:12
- Genesis 41:49
- Genesis 49:13
- Exodus 10:19
- Exodus 13:18
- Exodus 14:2
- Exodus 14:9
- Exodus 14:16
- Exodus 14:21
- Exodus 14:22
- Exodus 14:23
- Exodus 14:26
- Exodus 14:27
- Exodus 14:28
- Exodus 14:29
- Exodus 14:30
- Exodus 15:1
- Exodus 15:4
- Exodus 15:8
- Exodus 15:10
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H3220.