Strong's #3220: yam (pronounced yawm)
from an unused root meaning to roar; a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south:--sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
yâm
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
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root meaning to roar
Usage:
This word is used 396 times:
Exodus 36:32: "for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward."
Exodus 38:12: " And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten,"
Leviticus 11:9: "whatsoever and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat."
Leviticus 11:10: "have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, that move"
Numbers 2:18: " On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons"
Numbers 3:23: "shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward."
Numbers 11:22: "shall all of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice"
Numbers 11:31: "the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp,"
Numbers 13:29: "and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan."
Numbers 14:25: "by the way of the Red sea."
Numbers 21:4: "Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land"
Numbers 33:8: "from before Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, three"
Numbers 33:10: "from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea."
Numbers 33:11: "And they removed from the Red sea, sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin."
Numbers 34:3: "border shall be the outermost coast of the salt sea eastward:"
Numbers 34:5: "unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea."
Numbers 34:6: " And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this"
Numbers 34:6: "border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this your west"
Numbers 34:6: "for a border: this your west border."
Numbers 34:7: "border: from the great sea for you mount Hor:"
Numbers 34:11: "and the border and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:"
Numbers 34:12: "and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: shall be your land with the coasts"
Numbers 35:5: "and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits,"
Deuteronomy 1:7: "in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon,"
Deuteronomy 1:40: "into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea."
Deuteronomy 2:1: "into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as spoke unto"
Deuteronomy 3:17: "and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, sea,"
Deuteronomy 3:17: "even unto the sea of the plain, sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah"
Deuteronomy 3:27: "of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and eastward, and behold"
Deuteronomy 4:49: "Jordan eastward, even unto the sea under the springs of Pisgah."
Deuteronomy 11:4: "the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued"
Deuteronomy 11:24: "Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be."
Deuteronomy 30:13: "Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go"
Deuteronomy 30:13: "that thou shouldest say, Who shall go the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear"
Deuteronomy 33:19: "they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand."
Deuteronomy 33:23: "with the blessing possess thou the west and the south."
Deuteronomy 34:2: "unto the utmost sea,"
Joshua 1:4: "the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be"
Joshua 2:10: "of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt;"
Joshua 3:16: "that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain,"
Joshua 3:16: "Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed,"
Joshua 4:23: "the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before"
Joshua 5:1: "which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which"
Joshua 5:1: "of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD"
Joshua 8:9: "between and Ai, on the west side on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged"
Joshua 8:12: "between and Ai, on the west side on the west side of the city."
Joshua 8:13: "was on the north and their liers in wait on the west on the west of the city, Joshua"
Joshua 9:1: "and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite,"
Joshua 11:2: "and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west, on the west,"
Joshua 11:3: "And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite,"
