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Water

מַיStrong’s H4325

mayim (ma-yim)

Appears in 524 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Mayim is the Hebrew word usually translated “water”, “waters” and “waters of”. It appears in 524 verses of the Old Testament.

“Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.”
Daniel 1:12 KJV
Meaning
  1. Water, waterswater · water of the feet, urine · of danger, violence, transitory things, refreshment (fig.)
  2. This name means water, refreshment
How it's translated
  • water 182
  • waters 73
  • the waters 60
  • waters of 45
  • with water 37
  • the water 28
  • water of 21
  • and water 20

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

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 52
  • Psalms 49
  • Genesis 46
  • Leviticus 40
  • Ezekiel 40
  • Exodus 38

33 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 524 verses, by book
1 Chronicles 3
11:1711:1814:11
2 Chronicles 4
18:2632:332:432:30
Ezra 1
10:6
Ecclesiastes 2
2:611:1
Song of Solomon 3
4:155:128:7
Lamentations 5
1:162:193:483:545:4
Daniel 3
1:1212:612:7
Joel 2
1:203:18
Jonah 2
2:53:7
Micah 1
1:4
Nahum 3
2:83:83:14
Habakkuk 3
2:143:103:15
Zechariah 2
9:1114:8
Hebrew dictionary

מַי mayim · water

1) water, waters 1a) water 1b) water of the feet, urine 1c) of danger, violence, transitory things, refreshment (fig.)

מַי mayim · Water (Gate)

This name means water, refreshment

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “water” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

WATER, noun

Wauter. [G., Gr.]

  1. A fluid, the most abundant and most necessary for living beings of any in nature, except air. water when pure, is colorless, destitute of taste and smell, ponderous, transparent, and in a very small degree compressible.
  2. The ocean; a sea; a lake; a river; any great collection of water; as in the phrases, to go by water to travel by water
  3. Urine; the animal liquor secreted by the kidneys and discharged from the bladder.
  4. The color or luster of a diamond or pearl, sometimes perhaps of other precious stones; as a diamond of the first water that is, perfectly pure and transparent.
All definitions
  1. water is a name given to several liquid substances or humors in animal bodies; as the water of the pericardium, of dropsy, etc.

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.