H8064Hebrew

שָׁמַיִם

shâmayim(shaw-mah'-yim)
419 occurrencesOld TestamentCommon word

Definition

From Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (1906)

Strong's Definition

the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)

Translated in KJV as

air[idiom] astrologerheaven(-s).

Etymology

dual of an unused singular שָׁמֶה; from an unused root meaning to be lofty;

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