H8064 · שָׁמַיִם
shâmayim · shaw-mah'-yim · heaven, air
H8064 (shâmayim, pronounced shaw-mah'-yim) is the Hebrew word שָׁמַיִם in Strong’s dictionary: the sky (as aloft. It appears 421 times in 395 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- שָׁמַיִם (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- shâmayim
- Pronunciation
- shaw-mah'-yim
- Derivation
- dual of an unused singular שָׁמֶה; from an unused root meaning to be lofty;
- 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)
- Rendered in the KJV
- air, [idiom] astrologer, heaven(-s).
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
421 occurrences in 395 verses (410 with English words of their own, 11 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “the heavens” ×70
- “of heaven” ×49
- “heaven” ×44
- “of the air” ×39
- “from heaven” ×31
- “in heaven” ×13
- “in the heavens” ×13
- “of the heavens” ×13
By book
Genesis 39 · Exodus 14 · Leviticus 1 · Deuteronomy 38 · Joshua 4 · Judges 4 · 1 Samuel 4 · 2 Samuel 5 · 1 Kings 18 · 2 Kings 14 · 1 Chronicles 6 · 2 Chronicles 25 · Ezra 2 · Nehemiah 11 · Job 23 · Psalms 70 · Proverbs 6 · Ecclesiastes 5 · Isaiah 31 · Jeremiah 33 · Lamentations 5 · Ezekiel 9 · Daniel 5 · Hosea 4 · Joel 3 · Amos 2 · Jonah 1 · Nahum 1 · Habakkuk 1 · Zephaniah 2 · Haggai 3 · Zechariah 5 · Malachi 1
First 30 of 395 verses
- Genesis 1:1
- Genesis 1:8
- Genesis 1:9
- Genesis 1:14
- Genesis 1:15
- Genesis 1:17
- Genesis 1:20
- Genesis 1:26
- Genesis 1:28
- Genesis 1:30
- Genesis 2:1
- Genesis 2:4
- Genesis 2:19
- Genesis 2:20
- Genesis 6:7
- Genesis 6:17
- Genesis 7:3
- Genesis 7:11
- Genesis 7:19
- Genesis 7:23
- Genesis 8:2
- Genesis 9:2
- Genesis 11:4
- Genesis 14:19
- Genesis 14:22
- Genesis 15:5
- Genesis 19:24
- Genesis 21:17
- Genesis 22:11
- Genesis 22:15
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H8064.