Word Study · Strong's H3221 · Hebrew
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.
- 2occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 2inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 2 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 2
- יַמָּ֑א1
- לְיַמָּ֥א1
How it is rendered · 2
- obj. sea the1
- sea the1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1
- preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- ANcbsd/Ta · 1
- AR/Ncbsd/Ta · 1
All 2, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Daniel2 occurrences
- Daniel 7:2לְיַמָּ֥אleyama'preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)Daniel declared: “In my vision in the night I looked, and suddenly the four winds of heaven were churning up the great sea.here: obj. sea the
- Daniel 7:3יַמָּ֑אyama'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)Then four great beasts came up out of the sea, each one different from the others:here: sea the
Same headword in Strong's