יָם
yâm(yawm)
“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”
396 occurrencesOld TestamentCommon word
Definition
From Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (1906)
Strong’s Definition
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
Translated in KJV as
sea ([idiom] -faring man, (-shore))southwest (-ern, side, -ward).
Etymology
from an unused root meaning to roar;
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