ma.yim H4325

מַי (ma.yim) means “water” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

מַי Hebrew · H4325 581 tagged occurrences in 524 verses

Pronunciation guide: mah'-yim Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H4325G

מַי · ma.yim · water

1) water, waters 1a) water 1b) water of the feet, urine 1c) of danger, violence, transitory things, refreshment (fig.)

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TBESH · H4325H

מַי · ma.yim · Water (Gate)

This name means water, refreshment

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen

KJV glosses: [phrase] piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).

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How translators render H4325

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
water	116
the waters	79
waters	42
with water	39
of water	36
the water	34
and water	23
like water	14
in the water	6
of the waters	6
and the waters	5
for water	5
at the waters	4
vvv	4
your water	4
as water	3
in water	3
of the water	3
to the waters	3
and	2
and it	2
as the waters	2
by the waters	2
flood	2
in the waters	2
its water	2
let the waters	2
of tears	2
of waters	2
or in the waters	2
so that the waters	2
so the waters	2
to the water	2
were the waters	2
whose waters	2
with the water	2
a flood	1
and be like water	1
and his water	1
and its waters	1
and its waves	1
and made water	1
and storm	1
and the water	1
and the waters there	1
and the watery	1
and waterless land	1
and you waters	1
brought the waters	1
but the water	1
by the water	1
causes the water	1
even to go for water	1
finally the waters	1
floodwaters	1
for preparing the water	1
for the waters	1
from the line	1
from the waters	1
give him water	1
he made the waters	1
he made water	1
her waters	1
i will let her waters	1
if the waters	1
in the watering	1
in the waters above	1
into raging waters	1
it	1
it in the water	1
it in water	1
it only as waters	1
like a flood	1
like a river	1
must be rinsed with water	1
must we bring you water	1
of the sea	1
of the spring	1
of water as well	1
or water	1
pool	1
regarding the waters	1
rise	1
seas	1
so the water	1
some water	1
streams	1
that the waters	1
the floods	1
the floodwaters	1
the rain	1
the river	1
the sea	1
the water is ours	1
the water supply	1
the water there	1
the waters upright	1
their water	1
their waters	1
then the water	1
they	1
though their waters	1
through the water	1
through the waters	1
water in it	1
waterpots	1
were a spring of water	1
when the water	1
when the waters	1
will the waters	1
with tears	1
with water from that pot	1
you with water	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
water	80
the waters	62
waters	56
of water	43
in water	26
the water	21
of waters	20
and the waters	17
with water	14
of the water	13
in the waters	12
no water	11
for the waters	8
of the waters	8
that the waters	8
like water	7
and the water	6
and water	6
as water	5
by the waters	5
and with water	4
as the waters	4
unto the water	4
as waters	3
at the waters	3
in the water	3
them with water	3
upon the waters	3
whose waters	3
and my water	2
and there was no water	2
for water	2
from the waters	2
himself in water	2
into the water	2
let the waters	2
of thy water	2
their own piss	2
them water	2
to the waters	2
with waters	2
above the waters	1
after the water	1
also and the waters	1
also at the waters	1
also water	1
also with water	1
and all the waters	1
and became as water	1
and behold waters	1
and caused waters	1
and give them water	1
and given us water	1
and he made the waters	1
and the watersprings	1
and this water	1
and through water	1
and thy water	1
and waters	1
and ye waters	1
any more by the waters	1
as in water	1
at all with water	1
at the water	1
because the water	1
because their waters	1
because these waters	1
before them the waters	1
behold waters	1
beside all waters	1
beside the waters	1
but the water	1
by the water	1
causeth the waters	1
did the waters	1
even unto the water	1
for a water	1
for the dunghill	1
for the water	1
for washing	1
from under the waters	1
give him water	1
he caused the waters	1
he unto me these waters	1
her waters	1
him his waters	1
him out of the water	1
his water	1
how he made the water	1
i thee with water	1
if the waters	1
in the watering	1
into the waters	1
into water	1
into watersprings	1
it not in water	1
let not the waterflood	1
like the waters	1
me at the water	1
me water	1
on him as waters	1
our water	1
out of the waters	1
over against the water	1
over the waters	1
shall waters	1
snow water	1
so the waters	1
than all the waters	1
that hath no water	1
that the water	1
thee at the waters	1
thee waters	1
their water	1
their waters	1
them that the waters	1
then will i make their waters	1
there any water	1
there by the waters	1
there for water	1
these waters	1
thou hast not given water	1
thy water	1
to the water	1
to them water	1
toward the waters	1
until the waters	1
until water	1
upon her waters	1
upon the water	1
upon them like water	1
upon them the waters	1
us water	1
watercourse	1
were waters	1
where was no water	1
which the waters	1
with him against them by the waters	1
with the water	1
ye to the waters	1
you water	1

Verses containing H4325

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Numbers 20:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.
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Numbers 21:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
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Numbers 21:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From there they went on to Beer, the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people so that I may give them water.”
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Numbers 21:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Let us pass through your land. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”
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Numbers 24:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.
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Numbers 24:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will have abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.
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Numbers 27:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences
for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin.
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Numbers 31:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences
everything that can withstand the fire—must be put through the fire, and it will be clean. But it must still be purified with the water of purification. And everything that cannot withstand the fire must pass through the water.
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Numbers 33:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They set out from Marah and came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
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Numbers 33:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
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Deuteronomy 2:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’”
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Deuteronomy 2:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You can sell us food to eat and water to drink in exchange for silver. Only let us pass through on foot,
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Deuteronomy 4:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.
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Deuteronomy 5:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
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Deuteronomy 8:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
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Deuteronomy 8:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
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Deuteronomy 9:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
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Deuteronomy 9:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
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Deuteronomy 10:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From there they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.
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Deuteronomy 11:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
what He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day;
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Deuteronomy 11:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
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Deuteronomy 12:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
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Deuteronomy 12:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
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Deuteronomy 14:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,
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Deuteronomy 15:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
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Deuteronomy 23:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.
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Source alternate reference: 23.5
Deuteronomy 23:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may return to the camp.
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Source alternate reference: 23.12
Deuteronomy 29:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—
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Source alternate reference: 29.10
Deuteronomy 32:51 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.
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Deuteronomy 33:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Concerning Levi he said: “Give Your Thummim to Levi and Your Urim to Your godly one, whom You tested at Massah and contested at the waters of Meribah.
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Joshua 2:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.
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Joshua 3:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant: ‘When you reach the edge of the waters, stand in the Jordan.’”
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Joshua 3:13 · BSB · 3 occurrences
When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”
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Joshua 3:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge,
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Joshua 3:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
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Joshua 4:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”
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Joshua 4:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up out of the Jordan and their feet touched the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their course and overflowed all the banks as before.
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Joshua 4:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.
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Joshua 5:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and their spirits failed for fear of the Israelites.
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Joshua 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.
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Joshua 9:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They continued, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation.” So the leaders kept their promise.
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Joshua 9:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now therefore you are under a curse and will perpetually serve as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
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Joshua 9:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day for the congregation of the LORD and for the altar at the place He would choose.
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Joshua 11:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All these kings joined forces and encamped at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.
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Joshua 11:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So by the waters of Merom, Joshua and his whole army came upon them suddenly and attacked them,
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Joshua 15:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, turning north to Gilgal, which faces the Ascent of Adummim south of the ravine. It continued along the waters of En-shemesh and came out at En-rogel.
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Joshua 15:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From the hilltop the border curved to the spring of the Waters of Nephtoah, proceeded to the cities of Mount Ephron, and then bent around toward Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).
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Joshua 15:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Give me a blessing,” she answered. “Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water as well.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.
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Joshua 16:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The allotment for the descendants of Joseph extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness that goes up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.
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Joshua 18:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On the south side the border began at the outskirts of Kiriath-jearim and extended westward to the spring at the Waters of Nephtoah.
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