יָם yâm

Hebrew · Strong's H3220 · pronounced yawm · used 396 times in 339 verses

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;

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Where it is used

Psalms 78:53 He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.
Psalms 80:11 It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.
Psalms 89:9 You rule the raging sea; when its waves mount up, You still them.
Psalms 89:25 I will set his hand over the sea, and his right hand upon the rivers.
Psalms 93:4 Above the roar of many waters—the mighty breakers of the sea—the LORD on high is majestic.
Psalms 95:5 The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.
Psalms 96:11 Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea resound, and all that fills it.
Psalms 98:7 Let the sea resound, and all that fills it, the world, and all who dwell in it.
Psalms 104:25 Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
Psalms 106:7 Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
Psalms 106:9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
Psalms 106:22 wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
Psalms 107:3 and gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south.
Psalms 107:23 Others went out to sea in ships, conducting trade on the mighty waters.
Psalms 114:3 The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
Psalms 114:5 Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
Psalms 135:6 The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.
Psalms 136:13 He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.
Psalms 136:15 but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea. His loving devotion endures forever.
Psalms 139:9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
Psalms 146:6 the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.
Proverbs 8:29 when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
Proverbs 23:34 You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:
Proverbs 30:19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a maiden.
Ecclesiastes 1:7 All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.
Isaiah 5:30 In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.
Isaiah 9:1 Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:
Isaiah 10:22 Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
Isaiah 10:26 And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt.
Isaiah 11:9 They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.
Isaiah 11:11 On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Isaiah 11:14 They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
Isaiah 11:15 The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
Isaiah 16:8 For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.
Isaiah 17:12 Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.
Isaiah 18:2 which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
Isaiah 19:5 The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
Isaiah 21:1 This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
Isaiah 23:2 Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose traders have crossed the sea.
Isaiah 23:4 Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”
Isaiah 23:11 The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.
Isaiah 24:14 They raise their voices, they shout for joy; from the west they proclaim the majesty of the LORD.
Isaiah 24:15 Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands of the sea.
Isaiah 27:1 In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
Isaiah 42:10 Sing to the LORD a new song—His praise from the ends of the earth—you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who dwell in them.
Isaiah 43:16 Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the surging waters,
Isaiah 48:18 If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
Isaiah 49:12 Behold, they will come from far away, from the north and from the west, and from the land of Aswan.”
Isaiah 50:2 Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
Isaiah 51:10 Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
Isaiah 51:15 For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
Isaiah 57:20 But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.
Isaiah 60:5 Then you will look and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.
Isaiah 63:11 Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
Jeremiah 5:22 Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
Jeremiah 6:23 They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Zion.”
Jeremiah 15:8 I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
Jeremiah 25:22 all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;
Jeremiah 27:19 For this is what the LORD of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the bases, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city,
Jeremiah 31:35 Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name: