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:
Isaiah 18:2: "That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters,"
Isaiah 19:5: "And the waters shall fail from the sea, from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up."
Isaiah 21:1: "The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh"
Isaiah 23:2: "thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea,"
Isaiah 23:4: "Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea,"
Isaiah 23:4: "the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, I travail not, nor"
Isaiah 23:11: "He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD"
Isaiah 24:14: "for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea."
Isaiah 24:15: "of the LORD God in the isles of the sea."
Isaiah 27:1: "and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea."
Isaiah 42:10: "from the end of the earth, to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants"
Isaiah 43:16: "the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path waters;"
Isaiah 48:18: "as a river, and thy righteousness of the sea:"
Isaiah 49:12: "from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these"
Isaiah 50:2: "power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers"
Isaiah 51:10: "not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great that hath made"
Isaiah 51:10: "that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?"
Isaiah 51:15: "am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: of hosts"
Isaiah 57:20: "But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters"
Isaiah 60:5: "and be enlarged; because of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles"
Isaiah 63:11: "and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock?"
Jeremiah 5:22: "have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot"
Jeremiah 6:23: "mercy; roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array"
Jeremiah 15:8: "Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother"
Jeremiah 25:22: "which are beyond the sea,"
Jeremiah 27:19: "concerning the pillars, the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue"
Jeremiah 31:35: "for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts"
Jeremiah 33:22: "be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply"
Jeremiah 46:18: "as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come."
Jeremiah 47:7: "against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed"
Jeremiah 48:32: "for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea"
Jeremiah 48:32: "are gone over they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen"
Jeremiah 49:21: "at the cry the noise thereof was heard sea."
Jeremiah 49:23: "they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet."
Jeremiah 50:42: "show mercy: shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array,"
Jeremiah 51:36: "and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs"
Jeremiah 51:42: " The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves"
Jeremiah 52:17: "of the LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans"
Jeremiah 52:20: "The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen bulls"
Lamentations 2:13: "for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal"
Ezekiel 25:16: "and destroy the remnant of the sea coast."
Ezekiel 26:3: "nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up."
Ezekiel 26:5: "a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I it, saith"
Ezekiel 26:16: "Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away"
Ezekiel 26:17: "to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which"
Ezekiel 26:17: "city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which"
Ezekiel 26:18: "of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure."
Ezekiel 27:3: "O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant for many"
Ezekiel 27:4: "Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty."
Ezekiel 27:9: "in thee thy caulkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy"
