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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:

2 Kings 18:27: "their own dung, and drink their own piss with"
2 Kings 18:31: "of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:"
2 Kings 19:24: "have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all"
2 Kings 20:20: "and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written"
1 Chronicles 11:17: "and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that"
1 Chronicles 11:18: "the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that"
1 Chronicles 14:11: "upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name"
2 Chronicles 18:26: "fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return"
2 Chronicles 32:3: "and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without"
2 Chronicles 32:4: "come, and find much water?"
2 Chronicles 32:30: "also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down"
Ezra 10:6: "no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because"
Nehemiah 3:26: "dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower"
Nehemiah 4:23: "our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing."
Nehemiah 8:1: "the street that was before the water gate; and they spoke unto Ezra the scribe"
Nehemiah 8:3: "the street that was before the water gate from the morning until"
Nehemiah 8:16: "of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim."
Nehemiah 9:11: "as a stone into the mighty waters."
Nehemiah 9:15: "from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst,"
Nehemiah 9:20: "thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst."
Nehemiah 12:37: "above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward."
Nehemiah 13:2: "the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against"
Job 3:24: "I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters."
Job 5:10: "upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:"
Job 8:11: "can the flag grow without water?"
Job 9:30: "If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;"
Job 11:16: "shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:"
Job 12:15: "Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth."
Job 14:9: "Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant."
Job 14:11: " As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:"
Job 14:19: " The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest"
Job 15:16: "and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?"
Job 22:7: "Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withheld bread from the hungry."
Job 22:11: "that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover"
Job 24:18: "He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth:"
Job 24:19: "heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned."
Job 26:5: "Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants"
Job 26:8: "He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under"
Job 26:10: "He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night"
Job 27:20: "Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night."
Job 28:25: "the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure."
Job 29:19: "My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch."
Job 34:7: "is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?"
Job 36:27: "For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor"
Job 37:10: "of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened."
Job 38:30: " The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen."
Job 38:34: "thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover"
Psalms 1:3: "planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season;"
Psalms 18:11: "his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies."
Psalms 18:15: "Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke,"









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