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יָם

yam

yawm

Strong's 1890 spelling: yâm

a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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 as

sea ([idiom] -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).

  • 396
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 35 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 124
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 396 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 124

  • הַיָּ֖ם34
  • הַיָּ֔ם21
  • הַיָּ֑ם17
  • הַיָּֽם׃14
  • יָ֔ם14
  • יַם־14
  • יָ֑ם12
  • יָ֣ם12
  • יָ֖מָּה12
  • הַיָּם֙11
  • הַיָּ֣ם9
  • יָֽם׃9

and 112 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 59

  • the sea134
  • west -ward42
  • [the] sea34
  • [the] sea of28
  • [the] seas20
  • [the] west13
  • in the sea11
  • the sea towards8
  • [the] Sea of7
  • and the sea7
  • from [the] west7
  • on the sea7

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 21

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular139
  • noun · masculine singular53
  • noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)46
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)38
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular32
  • noun · masculine plural21
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular15
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)10
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)9
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular7
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)6
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural5
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 139
  • HNcmsa · 53
  • HNcmsa/Sd · 46
  • HNcmsc · 38
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 32
  • HNcmpa · 21
  • HR/Ncmsa · 15
  • HTd/Ncmsa/Sd · 10
  • HR/Ncmsc · 9
  • HC/Td/Ncmsa · 7
  • HC/Ncmsa/Sd · 6
  • HRd/Ncmpa · 5

All 396, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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Genesis13 occurrences
Exodus39 occurrences
Leviticus2 occurrences
Numbers19 occurrences
Deuteronomy14 occurrences
Joshua52 occurrences
Judges3 occurrences
1 Samuel1 occurrence
2 Samuel2 occurrences
1 Kings16 occurrences
2 Kings4 occurrences
1 Chronicles3 occurrences
2 Chronicles11 occurrences
Ezra1 occurrence
Nehemiah4 occurrences
Esther1 occurrence
Job12 occurrences
Psalms38 occurrences
Proverbs3 occurrences
Ecclesiastes2 occurrences
Isaiah31 occurrences
Jeremiah18 occurrences
Lamentations1 occurrence
Ezekiel60 occurrences
Daniel2 occurrences
Hosea3 occurrences
Joel2 occurrences
Amos5 occurrences
Jonah12 occurrences
Micah3 occurrences
Nahum3 occurrences
Habakkuk4 occurrences
Zephaniah3 occurrences
Haggai1 occurrence
Zechariah8 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled יָם

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).