שָׁמַיִם
shâmayim(shaw-mah'-yim)
“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)”
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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