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:
Daniel 8:4: "the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward;"
Daniel 11:45: "the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy yet he shall come"
Hosea 1:10: "of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which be measured nor"
Hosea 4:3: "and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away."
Hosea 11:10: "then the children shall tremble from the west. from the west."
Joel 2:20: "with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost"
Joel 2:20: "sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savor"
Amos 5:8: "and maketh the day dark that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face"
Amos 8:12: "And they shall wander from sea from sea to sea, and from the north even to"
Amos 8:12: "And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to"
Amos 9:3: "they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence"
Amos 9:6: "the earth; for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth:"
Jonah 1:4: "a great wind into the sea, and there was tempest in the sea,"
Jonah 1:4: "and there was tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken."
Jonah 1:5: "that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah"
Jonah 1:9: "which hath made the sea and the dry"
Jonah 1:11: "they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto"
Jonah 1:11: "may be calm unto the sea wrought, and was tempestuous."
Jonah 1:12: "them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea unto"
Jonah 1:12: "and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea unto you: for"
Jonah 1:13: "but they could not: the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against"
Jonah 1:15: "Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea from her raging."
Jonah 1:15: "and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea from her raging."
Jonah 2:3: "For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all"
Micah 7:12: "the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain."
Micah 7:12: "even to the river, and from sea to sea, to sea, and from mountain to mountain."
Micah 7:19: "all their sins of the sea."
Nahum 1:4: "He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan"
Nahum 3:8: "that had the waters round about rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?"
Nahum 3:8: "rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? was from the sea?"
Habakkuk 1:14: "And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler"
Habakkuk 2:14: "of the LORD, cover the sea."
Habakkuk 3:8: "was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, thou didst ride upon thine horses"
Habakkuk 3:15: "Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters."
Zephaniah 1:3: "the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off"
Zephaniah 2:5: "Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word"
Zephaniah 2:6: " And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds"
Haggai 2:6: "the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry"
Zechariah 9:4: "will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she with fire."
Zechariah 9:10: "and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea shall be from sea even to"
Zechariah 9:10: "peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river"
Zechariah 10:11: "And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all"
Zechariah 10:11: "with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all of the river shall dry up:"
Zechariah 14:4: "and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very"
Zechariah 14:8: "from Jerusalem; of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder"
Zechariah 14:8: "sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be."
