Strong's #8064: shamayim (pronounced shaw-mah'-yim)
dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve):--air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׁ / ׁ
shâmayim / shâmeh
1) heaven, heavens, sky
1a) visible heavens, sky
1a1) as abode of the stars
1a2) as the visible universe, the sky, atmosphere, etc
1b) Heaven (as the abode of God)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root meaning to be lofty
Usage:
This word is used 421 times:
Exodus 20:11: "the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all"
Exodus 20:22: "I have talked with you from heaven."
Exodus 24:10: "work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness."
Exodus 31:17: "the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested,"
Exodus 32:13: "your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that"
Leviticus 26:19: "of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:"
Deuteronomy 1:10: "you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude."
Deuteronomy 1:28: "we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims"
Deuteronomy 2:25: "the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble,"
Deuteronomy 3:24: "for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works,"
Deuteronomy 4:11: "with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness."
Deuteronomy 4:17: "fowl that flieth in the air,"
Deuteronomy 4:19: "And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon,"
Deuteronomy 4:19: "and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which"
Deuteronomy 4:19: "unto all nations under the whole heaven."
Deuteronomy 4:26: "I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon"
Deuteronomy 4:32: "upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other,"
Deuteronomy 4:32: "and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this"
Deuteronomy 4:36: "Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth"
Deuteronomy 4:39: "the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth"
Deuteronomy 5:8: "or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth"
Deuteronomy 7:24: "their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand"
Deuteronomy 9:1: "thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,"
Deuteronomy 9:14: "them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation"
Deuteronomy 10:14: "Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy God, the earth also, with all"
Deuteronomy 10:14: "Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy God, the earth also, with all"
Deuteronomy 10:14: "Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy God, the earth also, with all"
Deuteronomy 10:22: "thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude."
Deuteronomy 11:11: "and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:"
Deuteronomy 11:17: "be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land"
Deuteronomy 11:21: "unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth."
Deuteronomy 17:3: "or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;"
Deuteronomy 25:19: "it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not"
Deuteronomy 26:15: "from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people"
Deuteronomy 28:12: "his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season,"
Deuteronomy 28:23: " And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that"
Deuteronomy 28:24: "powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed."
Deuteronomy 28:26: "meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall frighten them away."
Deuteronomy 28:62: "whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not"
Deuteronomy 29:20: "his name from under heaven."
Deuteronomy 30:4: "any of thine be driven out unto the outermost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God"
Deuteronomy 30:12: "It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring"
Deuteronomy 30:12: "that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do"
Deuteronomy 30:19: "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life"
Deuteronomy 31:28: "in their ears, and call heaven and earth"
Deuteronomy 32:1: "Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth."
Deuteronomy 32:40: "I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live forever."
Deuteronomy 33:13: "of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep"
Deuteronomy 33:26: "like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky."
Deuteronomy 33:28: "of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew."
