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:
Psalms 148:4: "and ye waters that be above the heavens."
Psalms 148:13: "his glory is above the earth and heaven."
Proverbs 3:19: "the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens."
Proverbs 8:27: "When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face"
Proverbs 23:5: "riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven."
Proverbs 25:3: " The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable."
Proverbs 30:4: "Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists?"
Proverbs 30:19: "The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way"
Ecclesiastes 1:13: "things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God"
Ecclesiastes 2:3: "of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life."
Ecclesiastes 3:1: "to every purpose under the heaven:"
Ecclesiastes 5:2: "God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore"
Ecclesiastes 10:20: "in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice,"
Isaiah 1:2: "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished"
Isaiah 13:5: "They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD,"
Isaiah 13:10: "For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun"
Isaiah 13:13: "Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place,"
Isaiah 14:12: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down"
Isaiah 14:13: "hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above"
Isaiah 34:4: "And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all"
Isaiah 34:4: "the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host"
Isaiah 34:5: "For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea,"
Isaiah 37:16: "thou hast made heaven and earth."
Isaiah 40:12: "the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth"
Isaiah 40:22: "and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:"
Isaiah 42:5: "God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out"
Isaiah 44:23: "Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth:"
Isaiah 44:24: "am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth"
Isaiah 45:8: "Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth"
Isaiah 45:12: "it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded."
Isaiah 45:18: "saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth"
Isaiah 47:13: "in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly"
Isaiah 48:13: "of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up"
Isaiah 49:13: "Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for"
Isaiah 50:3: "I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering."
Isaiah 51:6: "Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath:"
Isaiah 51:6: "the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth"
Isaiah 51:13: "the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually"
Isaiah 51:16: "thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion,"
Isaiah 55:9: "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher"
Isaiah 55:10: "cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but"
Isaiah 63:15: "Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory:"
Isaiah 64:1: "Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,"
Isaiah 65:17: "behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not"
Isaiah 66:1: "Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool:"
Isaiah 66:22: "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I"
Jeremiah 2:12: "Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith"
Jeremiah 4:23: "and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light."
Jeremiah 4:25: "man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled."
Jeremiah 4:28: "this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because"
