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:
Joshua 2:11: "the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in"
Joshua 8:20: "the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee"
Joshua 10:11: "cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah,"
Joshua 10:13: "So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole"
Judges 5:4: "out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds"
Judges 5:20: "They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against"
Judges 13:20: "For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel"
Judges 20:40: "the flame of the city ascended up to heaven."
1 Samuel 2:10: "The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge"
1 Samuel 5:12: "and the cry of the city went up to heaven."
1 Samuel 17:44: "thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field."
1 Samuel 17:46: "of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all"
2 Samuel 18:9: "of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under"
2 Samuel 21:10: "water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds"
2 Samuel 21:10: "heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day,"
2 Samuel 22:8: "shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth."
2 Samuel 22:10: "He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet."
2 Samuel 22:14: "The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice."
1 Kings 8:22: "of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:"
1 Kings 8:23: "there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth"
1 Kings 8:27: "on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain"
1 Kings 8:27: "the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less"
1 Kings 8:27: "behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less"
1 Kings 8:30: "and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive."
1 Kings 8:32: "Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning"
1 Kings 8:34: "Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again"
1 Kings 8:35: " When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray"
1 Kings 8:36: "Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel,"
1 Kings 8:39: "Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give"
1 Kings 8:43: "Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that"
1 Kings 8:45: "Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause."
1 Kings 8:49: "thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,"
1 Kings 8:54: "from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven."
1 Kings 14:11: "and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken"
1 Kings 16:4: "and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat."
1 Kings 18:45: "And it came to pass in the meanwhile, that the heaven was black with clouds"
1 Kings 21:24: "and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat."
1 Kings 22:19: "his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand"
2 Kings 1:10: "then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire"
2 Kings 1:10: "And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty."
2 Kings 1:12: "let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God"
2 Kings 1:12: "of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty."
2 Kings 1:14: "Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two"
2 Kings 2:1: "would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha"
2 Kings 2:11: "and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven."
2 Kings 7:2: "if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said,"
2 Kings 7:19: "if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said,"
2 Kings 14:27: "the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam"
2 Kings 17:16: "and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal."
2 Kings 19:15: "thou hast made heaven and earth."
