יָם yâm

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: sea ([idiom] -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).

Derivation: from an unused root meaning to roar;

Where it is used

• 1 Kings 4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom, exceedingly deep insight, and understanding beyond measure, like the sand on the seashore.
• 1 Kings 5:9 My servants will haul the logs from Lebanon to the Sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate the logs, and you can take them away. And in exchange, you can meet my needs by providing my household with food.”
• 1 Kings 7:23 He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
• 1 Kings 7:24 Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.
• 1 Kings 7:25 The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.
• 1 Kings 7:39 He set five stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north, and he put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner of the temple.
• 1 Kings 7:44 the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;
• 1 Kings 9:26 King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
• 1 Kings 9:27 And Hiram sent his servants, sailors who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
• 1 Kings 10:22 For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
• 1 Kings 18:43 “Go and look toward the sea,” he said to his servant. So the servant went and looked, and he said, “There is nothing there.” Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”
• 1 Kings 18:44 On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”
• 2 Kings 14:25 This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
• 2 Kings 16:17 King Ahaz also cut off the frames of the movable stands and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.
• 2 Kings 25:13 Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
• 2 Kings 25:16 As for the two pillars, the Sea, and the movable stands that Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
• 1 Chronicles 9:24 The gatekeepers were stationed on the four sides: east, west, north, and south.
• 1 Chronicles 16:32 Let the sea resound, and all that fills it; let the fields exult, and all that is in them.
• 1 Chronicles 18:8 And from Tibhath and Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took a large amount of bronze, with which Solomon made the bronze Sea, the pillars, and various bronze articles.
• 2 Chronicles 2:16 We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”
• 2 Chronicles 4:2 He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
• 2 Chronicles 4:3 Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.
• 2 Chronicles 4:4 The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.
• 2 Chronicles 4:6 He also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the priests used the Sea for washing.
• 2 Chronicles 4:10 He put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.
• 2 Chronicles 4:15 the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;
• 2 Chronicles 8:17 Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the coast of Edom.
• 2 Chronicles 8:18 So Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
• 2 Chronicles 20:2 Then some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast army is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the Sea; they are already in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, En-gedi).
• Ezra 3:7 They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.
• Nehemiah 9:6 You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.
• Nehemiah 9:9 You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.
• Nehemiah 9:11 You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
• Esther 10:1 Now King Xerxes imposed tribute throughout the land, even to its farthest shores.
• Job 6:3 For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas—no wonder my words have been rash.
• Job 7:12 Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?
• Job 9:8 He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
• Job 11:9 Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
• Job 12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.
• Job 14:11 As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,
• Job 26:12 By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
• Job 28:14 The ocean depths say, ‘It is not in me,’ while the sea declares, ‘It is not with me.’
• Job 36:30 See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.
• Job 38:8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
• Job 38:16 Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
• Job 41:31 He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
• Psalms 8:8 the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
• Psalms 24:2 For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.
• Psalms 33:7 He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.
• Psalms 46:2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is transformed and the mountains are toppled into the depths of the seas,
• Psalms 65:5 With awesome deeds of righteousness You answer us, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.
• Psalms 65:7 You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.
• Psalms 66:6 He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the waters on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.
• Psalms 68:22 The Lord said, “I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them up from the depths of the sea,
• Psalms 69:34 Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.
• Psalms 72:8 May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
• Psalms 74:13 You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
• Psalms 77:19 Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.
• Psalms 78:13 He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
• Psalms 78:27 He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.