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:
Hosea 4:3: "therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also"
Hosea 7:12: "upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard."
Joel 2:10: "The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark,"
Joel 2:30: "And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke."
Joel 3:16: "out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake:"
Amos 9:2: "shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:"
Amos 9:6: "It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth"
Jonah 1:9: "fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea"
Nahum 3:16: "Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away."
Habakkuk 3:3: "from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full"
Zephaniah 1:3: "and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with"
Zephaniah 1:5: "And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD,"
Haggai 1:10: "Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth"
Haggai 2:6: "and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry"
Haggai 2:21: "I will shake the heavens and the earth;"
Zechariah 2:6: "for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD."
Zechariah 5:9: "the ephah between the earth and the heaven."
Zechariah 6:5: "me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before"
Zechariah 8:12: "shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant"
Zechariah 12:1: "saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit"
Malachi 3:10: "I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that"
