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Sea

יַםStrong’s H3221

yam

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Yam is the Aramaic word usually translated “sea the”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.”
Daniel 7:2 KJV
Meaning
  1. Sea
How it's translated
  • sea the 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 2

1 book in all.

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Aramaic dictionary

יַם yam · sea

sea Aramaic of yam (יָם ": sea" H3220G)

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.]

  1. 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
  2. A large body of water, nearly inclosed by land, as the Baltic or the Mediterranean; as the sea of Azof.
  3. The ocean; as, to go to sea.
  4. A wave; a billow; a surge.
All definitions
  1. The swell of the ocean in a tempest, or the direction of the waves; as, we head the sea.
  2. Proverbially, a large quantity of liquor; as a sea of blood.
  3. 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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.