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:
Jeremiah 7:18: "to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods,"
Jeremiah 7:33: "shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away."
Jeremiah 8:2: "and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served,"
Jeremiah 8:7: "Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow"
Jeremiah 9:10: "them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast"
Jeremiah 10:2: "and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed"
Jeremiah 10:12: "the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion."
Jeremiah 10:13: "his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends"
Jeremiah 14:22: "of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou"
Jeremiah 15:3: "and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy."
Jeremiah 16:4: "and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth."
Jeremiah 19:7: "will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth."
Jeremiah 19:13: "they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods."
Jeremiah 23:24: "I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 31:37: "saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations"
Jeremiah 32:17: "thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out"
Jeremiah 33:22: "As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea"
Jeremiah 33:25: "and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;"
Jeremiah 34:20: "shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth."
Jeremiah 44:17: "thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out"
Jeremiah 44:18: "But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted"
Jeremiah 44:19: "we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes"
Jeremiah 44:25: "that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish"
Jeremiah 49:36: "winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those"
Jeremiah 51:9: "her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies."
Jeremiah 51:15: "the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding."
Jeremiah 51:16: "his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends"
Jeremiah 51:48: " Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for"
Jeremiah 51:53: "Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength,"
Lamentations 2:1: "of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,"
Lamentations 3:41: "our hands unto God in the heavens."
Lamentations 3:50: "the LORD look down, and behold from heaven."
Lamentations 3:66: "and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD."
Lamentations 4:19: "are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains,"
Ezekiel 1:1: "by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God."
Ezekiel 8:3: "lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God"
Ezekiel 29:5: "to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven."
Ezekiel 31:6: "All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all"
Ezekiel 31:13: "his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field"
Ezekiel 32:4: "field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts"
Ezekiel 32:7: "And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun"
Ezekiel 32:8: "All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness"
Ezekiel 38:20: "So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things"
Daniel 8:8: "and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven."
Daniel 8:10: "And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of"
Daniel 9:12: "for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done"
Daniel 11:4: "and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion"
Daniel 12:7: "when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him that liveth forever"
Hosea 2:18: "of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow"
Hosea 2:21: "the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;"
