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Strong's #4325: mayim (pronounced mah'-yim)

dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen:--+ piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mayim

1) water, waters

1a) water

1b) water of the feet, urine

1c) of danger, violence, transitory things, refreshment (figuratively)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)



Usage:

This word is used 581 times:

1 Samuel 30:12: "bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights."
2 Samuel 5:20: "mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name"
2 Samuel 12:27: "have taken the city of waters."
2 Samuel 14:14: "For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot"
2 Samuel 17:20: "said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned"
2 Samuel 17:21: "David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus"
2 Samuel 21:10: "from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of"
2 Samuel 22:12: "pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies."
2 Samuel 22:17: "from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;"
2 Samuel 23:15: "and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which"
2 Samuel 23:16: "the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that"
1 Kings 13:8: "bread nor drink water in this place:"
1 Kings 13:9: "bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that"
1 Kings 13:16: "bread nor drink water with thee in this place:"
1 Kings 13:17: "bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go"
1 Kings 13:18: "that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied"
1 Kings 13:19: "bread in his house, and drank water."
1 Kings 13:22: "and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say to"
1 Kings 13:22: "bread, and drink no water; thy carcass shall not come unto"
1 Kings 14:15: "as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of"
1 Kings 17:10: "Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink."
1 Kings 18:4: "them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)"
1 Kings 18:5: "unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure"
1 Kings 18:13: "of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?"
1 Kings 18:33: "Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on"
1 Kings 18:35: " And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also"
1 Kings 18:35: "the trench also with water."
1 Kings 18:38: "and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench."
1 Kings 19:6: "there was a cake baked on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down"
1 Kings 22:27: "fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come"
2 Kings 2:8: "and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two"
2 Kings 2:14: "from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD"
2 Kings 2:14: "and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither:"
2 Kings 2:19: "as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren."
2 Kings 2:21: "And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said,"
2 Kings 2:21: "the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence"
2 Kings 2:22: " So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which"
2 Kings 3:9: "journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed"
2 Kings 3:11: "Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on"
2 Kings 3:17: "yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts."
2 Kings 3:19: "and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land"
2 Kings 3:20: "was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country"
2 Kings 3:20: "of Edom, and the country was filled with water."
2 Kings 3:22: "and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water"
2 Kings 3:22: "and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:"
2 Kings 3:25: "it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees:"
2 Kings 5:12: "of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash"
2 Kings 6:5: "the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master!"
2 Kings 6:22: "and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go"
2 Kings 8:15: "on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face,"









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