יָם

yâm · H3220 · Hebrew · 396 occurrences

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Meanings

1. sea, lake, ocean

   A large and deep body of water which collects in a depression of the land; containing either salt water or fresh water

   Examples

   Genesis 1:10 And God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of the waters He called “seas”; and God saw that it was good.

   Genesis 1:22 God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

   Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.”

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2. Mediterranean Sea

   Literally: the sea; hence: a large body of salt water located between Europe and Africa, west of Canaan/Israel

   Examples

   Exodus 23:31 “I will set your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River; for I will hand over the inhabitants of the land to you, and you will drive them out from you.

   Deuteronomy 11:24 “Every place on which the sole of your foot steps shall be yours; your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea.

   Deuteronomy 34:2 and all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah as far as the western sea,

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3. Salt Sea, Dead Sea

   Literally: the sea of salt; hence: a large body of salt water located in the basin of the Jordan Valley, east of Judah; the Jordan River flows from the north into the northern part of this sea; the water is so salty that no living organism inhabits them

   Examples

   Genesis 14:3 All these kings came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

   Deuteronomy 3:17 the Arabah also, with the Jordan as a border, from Chinnereth even as far as the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

   Deuteronomy 4:49 with all the Arabah across the Jordan to the east, even as far as the sea of the Arabah, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.

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4. Sea of Chinnereth, Sea of Kinnereth, Lake Galilee

   A large body of fresh water east of the territory of Galilee, in northern Israel, through which the Jordan River flows

   Examples

   Numbers 34:11 and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down and reach to the slope on the east side of the Sea of Chinnereth.

   Deuteronomy 33:23 Of Naphtali he said, “Naphtali, satisfied with favor, And full of the blessing of the LORD, Take possession of the sea and the south.”

   Joshua 12:3 and the Arabah as far as the Sea of Chinneroth toward the east, and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, that is, the Salt Sea, eastward toward Beth-jeshimoth, and on the south, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;

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5. Sea of Egypt

   Literally: sea of Egypt; hence, possibly: a reference to the Red Sea which is shaped like a tongue

   Examples

   Isaiah 11:15 And the LORD will utterly destroy The tongue of the Sea of Egypt; And He will wave His hand over the Euphrates River With His scorching wind; And He will strike it into seven streams And make people walk over in dry sandals.

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6. Sea of Reeds, Gulf of Aqaba

   Bodies of water located east of Egypt and south of Israel; possibly referring to the Gulf of Suez and/or to the Gulf of Aqaba off the Red Sea

   Examples

   Exodus 10:19 So the LORD shifted the wind to a very strong west wind, which picked up the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.

   Deuteronomy 1:40 ‘But as for you, turn around and set out for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.’

   Deuteronomy 2:1 “Then we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me, and we circled Mount Seir for many days.

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7. sea, Persian Gulf, Euphrates River

   Literally: the sea; hence: a body of water in the area of Babylon; possibly the Euphrates River or the Persian Gulf

   Examples

   Isaiah 21:1 The pronouncement concerning the wilderness of the sea: As windstorms in the Negev come in turns, It comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land.

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8. the Nile River

   Literally: the sea; hence: a large river flowing from the south to the north through Egypt into the Mediterranean Sea

   Examples

   Isaiah 18:2 Which sends messengers by the sea, Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, To a people feared far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation Whose land the rivers divide.

   Isaiah 19:5 The waters from the sea will dry up, And the river will be parched and dry.

   Nahum 3:8 Are you better than No-amon, Which was situated by the canals of the Nile, With water surrounding her, Whose rampart was the sea, Whose wall consisted of the sea?

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9. great round basin

   Literally: the sea; hence: a large basin, made out of bronze, and, used for ritual washing in the temple

   Examples

   1 Kings 7:23 He also made the Sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in shape, and its height was five cubits, and it was thirty cubits in circumference.

   1 Kings 7:24 Under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the Sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the rest.

   1 Kings 7:25 It was standing on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the Sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward.

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10. west

    Literally: the sea; a reference to the space behind a person facing the sunrise, which, in Israel, is the direction towards the Mediterranean Sea

    Examples

    Genesis 12:8 Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.

    Genesis 13:14 The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now raise your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward, and eastward and westward;

    Genesis 28:14 “Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

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Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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