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:
Nehemiah 9:13: "Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments,"
Nehemiah 9:15: "And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock"
Nehemiah 9:23: "Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which"
Nehemiah 9:27: "unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest"
Nehemiah 9:28: "and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver"
Job 1:16: "of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed"
Job 2:12: "and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven."
Job 9:8: "Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea."
Job 11:8: "It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what"
Job 12:7: "the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell"
Job 14:12: "and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor"
Job 15:15: "Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight."
Job 16:19: "now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high."
Job 20:6: "Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;"
Job 20:27: " The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up"
Job 22:12: "Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how"
Job 22:14: "not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven."
Job 26:11: "The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof."
Job 26:13: "By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent."
Job 28:21: "of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air."
Job 28:24: "and seeth under the whole heaven;"
Job 35:5: "Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than"
Job 35:11: "us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?"
Job 37:3: "He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth."
Job 38:29: "Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath engendered"
Job 38:33: "Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?"
Job 38:37: "or who can stay the bottles of heaven,"
Job 41:11: "me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven"
Psalms 2:4: "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision."
Psalms 8:1: "hast set thy glory above the heavens."
Psalms 8:3: "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which"
Psalms 8:8: "The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas."
Psalms 11:4: "temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try,"
Psalms 14:2: "The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see"
Psalms 18:9: "He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet."
Psalms 18:13: "The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals"
Psalms 19:1: "To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament"
Psalms 19:6: "His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing"
Psalms 20:6: "his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand."
Psalms 33:6: "By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth."
Psalms 33:13: "The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons"
Psalms 36:5: "Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds."
Psalms 50:4: "He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge"
Psalms 50:6: " And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah."
Psalms 53:2: "God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see"
Psalms 57:3: "He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God"
Psalms 57:5: "Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth."
Psalms 57:10: "thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds."
Psalms 57:11: "Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth."
Psalms 68:8: "The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God:"
