Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H3220

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Original: ים

Transliteration: yam (yâm)

Phonetic: yawm

BDB Definition:

sea
1. Mediterranean Sea
2. Red Sea
3. Dead Sea
4. Sea of Galilee
5. sea (general)
6. mighty river (Nile)
7. the sea (the great basin in the temple court)
8. seaward, west, westward

Origin: from an unused root meaning to roar

TWOT entry: 871a

Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

Strong's Definition: From an unused root meaning to roar ; a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article) the Mediterranean; sometimes a large river, or an artificial basin ; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south: - sea (X -faring man, [-shore]), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (396x)

Against The Sea (1x)

Against Thee, As The Sea (1x)

Also From Sea (1x)

Also In The Sea (1x)

And Against The Sea (1x)

And By The Sea (1x)

And Concerning The Sea (1x)

And For The West (1x)

And From Sea (1x)

And From The South (1x)

And From The West (1x)

And On The West (2x)

And The Sea (8x)

And The West (2x)

And Toward The West (3x)

And Unto The Sea (1x)

And Westward (2x)

At The Sea (2x)

At The West (1x)

Between The Seas (1x)

By Sea (1x)

By The Sea (9x)

By The Seas (1x)

Caused The Sea (1x)

Even Unto The Sea (4x)

Even Unto The West (2x)

For The Sea (1x)

From Sea (2x)

From The Sea (6x)

From The West (3x)

Had At Sea (1x)

He Seas (1x)

Her Sea (1x)

Him, The Seas (1x)

I A Sea (1x)

In The Sea (8x)

In The Seas (5x)

In Them; But The Sea (1x)

Into The Sea (12x)

It Upon The Seas (1x)

Let The Sea (3x)

Like The Sea (3x)

Not In Me: And The Sea (1x)

Not: But The Sea (1x)

Not: For The Sea (1x)

Of It Shall Be At The Sea (1x)

Of It Were At The Sea (1x)

Of Seafaring Men (1x)

Of The Sea (70x)

Of The Seas (12x)

On The Sea (4x)

On The West (6x)

On The West Side (4x)

Out Of The Sea (2x)

Out Of The Seas (1x)

Over The Sea (5x)

Sea (64x)

So Shall The Sea (1x)

Than The Sea (1x)

The Sea (39x)

The West (4x)

The Western (1x)

Thee, O Thou Sea (1x)

Them By Sea (1x)

Therein, The Seas (1x)

Thereof Are At The Sea (2x)

Thereof Were At The Sea (1x)

This Shall Be Your West (1x)

Thou The West (1x)

Through The Sea (1x)

To Sea (4x)

To The Sea (6x)

To The West (2x)

Toward The Sea (3x)

Toward The West (4x)

Under The Sea (1x)

Unto The Sea (4x)

Unto The West (11x)

Unto Thee, That The Sea (1x)

Unto Us? For The Sea (1x)

Upon The Sea (4x)

Were At The Sea (2x)

West (3x)

Westward (19x)

Yet The Sea (1x)

All Occurrences

2 Kings 14:25

He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath–hepher.

2 Kings 16:17

And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.

2 Kings 25:13

And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord , and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord , did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.

2 Kings 25:16

The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord ; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.(e)

1 Chronicles 9:24

In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.

1 Chronicles 16:32

Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein.

1 Chronicles 18:8

Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.(d)

2 Chronicles 2:16

And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.(h)

(i)

2 Chronicles 4:2

Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.(a)

2 Chronicles 4:3

And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.

2 Chronicles 4:4

It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

2 Chronicles 4:6

He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.(c)

2 Chronicles 4:10

And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.

2 Chronicles 4:15

One sea, and twelve oxen under it.

2 Chronicles 8:17

Then went Solomon to Ezion–geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.(d)

2 Chronicles 8:18

And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

2 Chronicles 20:2

Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazon–tamar, which is En–gedi.

Ezra 3:7

They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.(f)

Nehemiah 9:6

Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.

Nehemiah 9:9

And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;

Nehemiah 9:11

And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

Esther 10:1

And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.

Job 6:3

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.(b)

Job 7:12

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

Job 9:8

Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.(b)

Job 11:9

The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

Job 12:8

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

Job 14:11

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

Job 26:12

He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.(c)

Job 28:14

The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.

Job 36:30

Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.(k)

Job 38:8

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

Job 38:16

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H3220

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H3220