Sea
יָםStrong’s H3220yam
Appears in 339 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yam is the Hebrew word usually translated “sea”, “west -ward” and “sea of”. It appears in 339 verses of the Old Testament.
“I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.”
Meaning
- SeaMediterranean Sea · Red Sea · Dead Sea · Sea of Galilee · sea (general) · mighty river (Nile) · the sea (the great basin in the temple court) · seaward, west, westward
How it's translated
- the sea 141
- west -ward 44
- sea 40
- sea of 39
- seas 21
- west 14
- in the sea 14
- from west 8
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 52
- Joshua 41
- Psalms 35
- Isaiah 29
- Exodus 28
- Numbers 17
35 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:45In contextAnd he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
- Zechariah 9:4In contextBehold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
- Zechariah 9:10In contextAnd I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
- Zechariah 10:11In contextAnd he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
- Zechariah 14:4In contextAnd his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
- Zechariah 14:8In contextAnd it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
All 339 verses, by book
- Exodus 28
- 10:1913:1814:214:914:1614:2114:2214:2314:2614:2714:2814:2914:3015:115:415:815:1015:1915:2115:2220:1123:3126:2226:2727:1236:2736:3238:12
- Joshua 41
- 1:42:103:164:235:18:98:128:139:111:211:311:412:312:713:2715:215:415:515:815:1015:1115:1215:4615:4716:316:616:817:917:1018:1218:1418:1518:1919:1119:2619:2919:3422:723:424:624:7
- 1 Samuel 1
- 13:5
- Ezra 1
- 3:7
- Esther 1
- 10:1
- Psalms 35
- 8:824:233:746:265:565:766:668:2269:3472:874:1377:1978:1378:2778:5380:1189:989:2593:495:596:1198:7104:25106:7106:9106:22107:3107:23114:3114:5135:6136:13136:15139:9146:6
- Ecclesiastes 1
- 1:7
- Isaiah 29
- 5:309:110:2210:2611:911:1111:1411:1516:817:1218:219:521:123:223:423:1124:1424:1527:142:1043:1648:1849:1250:251:1051:1557:2060:563:11
- Lamentations 1
- 2:13
- Ezekiel 52
- 25:1626:326:526:1626:1726:1827:327:427:927:2527:2627:2727:2927:3227:3327:3428:228:832:238:2039:1141:1242:1945:746:1947:847:1047:1547:1747:1847:1947:2048:148:248:348:448:548:648:748:848:1048:1648:1748:1848:2148:2348:2448:2548:2648:2748:2848:34
- Joel 1
- 2:20
- Haggai 1
- 2:6
Hebrew dictionary
יָם yam · sea
: sea 1) sea 1a) Mediterranean Sea 1b) Red Sea 1c) Dead Sea 1d) Sea of Galilee 1e) sea (general) 1f) mighty river (Nile) 1g) the sea (the great basin in the temple court) 1h) seaward, west, westward
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sea” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEA, noun
see. [This word, like lake, signifies primarily a seat, set or lay, a repository, a bason.]
- A large bason, cisternor laver which Solomon made in the temple, so large as to contain more than six thousand gallons. 1 Kings 7:232 Chronicles 4:2
- A large body of water, nearly inclosed by land, as the Baltic or the Mediterranean; as the sea of Azof.
- The ocean; as, to go to sea.
- A wave; a billow; a surge.
All definitions
- The swell of the ocean in a tempest, or the direction of the waves; as, we head the sea.
- Proverbially, a large quantity of liquor; as a sea of blood.
- A rough or agitated place or element.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.