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:
Psalms 33:7: "He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses."
Psalms 46:2: "be removed, and though the mountains be carried of the sea;"
Psalms 65:5: "of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:"
Psalms 65:7: "Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people."
Psalms 66:6: "He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there"
Psalms 68:22: "from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:"
Psalms 69:34: "Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth"
Psalms 72:8: "He shall have dominion also from sea also from sea to sea, and from the river unto"
Psalms 72:8: "He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto"
Psalms 74:13: "Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou didst break the heads of the dragons"
Psalms 77:19: "Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not"
Psalms 78:13: "He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap."
Psalms 78:27: "and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:"
Psalms 78:53: "them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies."
Psalms 80:11: "She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river."
Psalms 89:9: "Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou"
Psalms 89:25: "I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers."
Psalms 93:4: "of many waters, yea, than the mighty of the sea."
Psalms 95:5: " The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry"
Psalms 96:11: "rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fullness"
Psalms 98:7: " Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell"
Psalms 104:25: "So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable,"
Psalms 106:7: "of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea."
Psalms 106:7: "him at the sea, even at the Red sea."
Psalms 106:9: "He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness."
Psalms 106:22: "and terrible things by the Red sea."
Psalms 107:3: "them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south."
Psalms 107:23: "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;"
Psalms 114:3: " The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back."
Psalms 114:5: "What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?"
Psalms 135:6: "pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, deep places."
Psalms 136:13: "To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth forever:"
Psalms 136:15: "Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy"
Psalms 139:9: "of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;"
Psalms 146:6: "heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that truth"
Proverbs 8:29: "When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment:"
Proverbs 23:34: "Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast."
Proverbs 30:19: "of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid."
Ecclesiastes 1:7: "the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not unto"
Ecclesiastes 1:7: "run into the sea; yet the sea is not unto the place"
Isaiah 5:30: "they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look behold darkness"
Isaiah 9:1: "and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations."
Isaiah 10:22: "Israel be as the sand of the sea, of them shall return: the consumption decreed"
Isaiah 10:26: "of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt."
Isaiah 11:9: "the LORD, as the waters cover the sea."
Isaiah 11:11: "and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath,"
Isaiah 11:14: "But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them"
Isaiah 11:15: "the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty shall he shake his hand"
Isaiah 16:8: "her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea."
Isaiah 17:12: "people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing"
