יָם (yam) means “sea” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: yawm Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
יָם · yam · sea
: sea 1) sea 1a) Mediterranean Sea 1b) Red Sea 1c) Dead Sea 1d) Sea of Galilee 1e) sea (general) 1f) mighty river (Nile) 1g) the sea (the great basin in the temple court) 1h) seaward, west, westward
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יָם · yam · sea: west
: west 1) sea 1a) Mediterranean Sea 1b) Red Sea 1c) Dead Sea 1d) Sea of Galilee 1e) sea (general) 1f) mighty river (Nile) 1g) the sea (the great basin in the temple court) 1h) seaward, west, westward
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יָם · yam · (Mt. Ephron in the) West
This name means sea, seaward, westward Another name of eph.ron (עֶפְרוֹן "(Mount )Ephron" H6085H)
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from an unused root meaning to roar; a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
KJV glosses: sea ([idiom] -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the sea | 85 |
| sea | 57 |
| of the sea | 52 |
| west | 17 |
| to the west | 12 |
| on the west | 10 |
| of the seas | 9 |
| at the sea | 7 |
| into the sea | 6 |
| westward | 6 |
| to the sea | 5 |
| from sea | 4 |
| in the sea | 4 |
| and the sea | 3 |
| as the sea | 3 |
| by sea | 3 |
| in the seas | 3 |
| let the sea | 3 |
| like the sea | 3 |
| on the west side | 3 |
| seas | 3 |
| the salt sea | 3 |
| the seas | 3 |
| the west | 3 |
| and on the west | 2 |
| and west | 2 |
| at sea | 2 |
| by the sea | 2 |
| for the sea | 2 |
| from the west | 2 |
| from the western | 2 |
| it | 2 |
| of the salt sea | 2 |
| the coast | 2 |
| the seashore | 2 |
| the west side | 2 |
| through the sea | 2 |
| to sea | 2 |
| against the sea | 1 |
| and along the seacoast | 1 |
| and from the west | 1 |
| and south | 1 |
| and the western | 1 |
| and westward | 1 |
| as far as the red sea | 1 |
| at the far western | 1 |
| by seafaring men | 1 |
| by the seas | 1 |
| extending westward | 1 |
| from the sea | 1 |
| having the sea | 1 |
| her sea | 1 |
| is the sea | 1 |
| led through the sea | 1 |
| o sea | 1 |
| of its coastland | 1 |
| of the nile | 1 |
| on the high seas | 1 |
| on the sea | 1 |
| on the seashore | 1 |
| out to sea | 1 |
| over the sea | 1 |
| so it | 1 |
| than the sea | 1 |
| the dead sea | 1 |
| the red sea | 1 |
| the seacoast | 1 |
| this sea | 1 |
| to the great sea | 1 |
| to the west side | 1 |
| to the western | 1 |
| to west | 1 |
| toward the west | 1 |
| vvv | 1 |
| was the salt sea | 1 |
| was the sea | 1 |
| was the water | 1 |
| was the western | 1 |
| west of | 1 |
| west side | 1 |
| western | 1 |
| whether in the seas | 1 |
| while the sea | 1 |
| will be the western | 1 |
| yet the sea | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of the sea | 70 |
| sea | 64 |
| the sea | 39 |
| westward | 19 |
| into the sea | 12 |
| of the seas | 12 |
| unto the west | 11 |
| by the sea | 9 |
| and the sea | 8 |
| in the sea | 8 |
| from the sea | 6 |
| on the west | 6 |
| to the sea | 6 |
| in the seas | 5 |
| over the sea | 5 |
| even unto the sea | 4 |
| on the sea | 4 |
| on the west side | 4 |
| the west | 4 |
| to sea | 4 |
| toward the west | 4 |
| unto the sea | 4 |
| upon the sea | 4 |
| and toward the west | 3 |
| from the west | 3 |
| let the sea | 3 |
| like the sea | 3 |
| toward the sea | 3 |
| west | 3 |
| and on the west | 2 |
| and the west | 2 |
| and westward | 2 |
| at the sea | 2 |
| even unto the west | 2 |
| from sea | 2 |
| out of the sea | 2 |
| thereof are at the sea | 2 |
| to the west | 2 |
| were at the sea | 2 |
| against the sea | 1 |
| against thee as the sea | 1 |
| also from sea | 1 |
| also in the sea | 1 |
| and against the sea | 1 |
| and by the sea | 1 |
| and concerning the sea | 1 |
| and for the west | 1 |
| and from sea | 1 |
| and from the south | 1 |
| and from the west | 1 |
| and unto the sea | 1 |
| at the west | 1 |
| between the seas | 1 |
| by sea | 1 |
| by the seas | 1 |
| caused the sea | 1 |
| for the sea | 1 |
| had at sea | 1 |
| he seas | 1 |
| her sea | 1 |
| him the seas | 1 |
| i a sea | 1 |
| in them but the sea | 1 |
| it upon the seas | 1 |
| not but the sea | 1 |
| not for the sea | 1 |
| not in me and the sea | 1 |
| of it shall be at the sea | 1 |
| of it were at the sea | 1 |
| of seafaring men | 1 |
| out of the seas | 1 |
| so shall the sea | 1 |
| than the sea | 1 |
| the western | 1 |
| thee o thou sea | 1 |
| them by sea | 1 |
| therein the seas | 1 |
| thereof were at the sea | 1 |
| this shall be your west | 1 |
| thou the west | 1 |
| through the sea | 1 |
| under the sea | 1 |
| unto thee that the sea | 1 |
| unto us for the sea | 1 |
| yet the sea | 1 |
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the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.
Read word by wordwhen He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
Read word by wordYou will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:
Read word by wordthe way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a maiden.
Read word by wordAll the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.
Read word by wordIn that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.
Read word by wordNevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 8.23
Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
Read word by wordAnd the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt.
Read word by wordThey will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.
Read word by wordOn that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Read word by wordThey will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
Read word by wordThe LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
Read word by wordFor the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.
Read word by wordAlas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.
Read word by wordwhich sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
Read word by wordThe waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
Read word by wordThis is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
Read word by wordBe silent, O dwellers of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose traders have crossed the sea.
Read word by wordBe ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”
Read word by wordThe LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.
Read word by wordThey raise their voices, they shout for joy; from the west they proclaim the majesty of the LORD.
Read word by wordTherefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands of the sea.
Read word by wordIn that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
Read word by wordSing to the LORD a new song—His praise from the ends of the earth—you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who dwell in them.
Read word by wordThus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the surging waters,
Read word by wordIf only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
Read word by wordBehold, they will come from far away, from the north and from the west, and from the land of Aswan.”
Read word by wordWhy was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
Read word by wordWas it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
Read word by wordFor I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
Read word by wordBut the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.
Read word by wordThen you will look and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.
Read word by wordThen His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
Read word by wordDo you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
Read word by wordThey grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Zion.”
Read word by wordI will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
Read word by wordall the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;
Read word by wordFor this is what the LORD of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the bases, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city,
Read word by wordThus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
Read word by wordAs the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
Read word by wordAs surely as I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.
Read word by wordHow can it rest when the LORD has commanded it? He has appointed it against Ashkelon and the shore of its coastland.”
Read word by wordI will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.
Read word by wordAt the sound of their fall the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.
Read word by wordConcerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
Read word by wordThey grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Babylon.
Read word by wordTherefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
Read word by wordThe sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
Read word by wordMoreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.
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