שָׁמַיִם (sha.ma.yim) means “heaven” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: shaw-mah'-yim Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
שָׁמַיִם · sha.ma.yim · heaven
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) Aramaic equivalent: sha.ma.yin (שָׁמַ֫יִן "heaven" H8065)
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dual of an unused singular שָׁמֶה; 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)
KJV glosses: air, [idiom] astrologer, heaven(-s).
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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 heavens | 77 |
| of heaven | 54 |
| heaven | 46 |
| of the air | 39 |
| from heaven | 33 |
| in heaven | 13 |
| in the heavens | 13 |
| of the heavens | 13 |
| to the heavens | 12 |
| in the sky | 9 |
| the sky | 9 |
| of the sky | 7 |
| o heavens | 6 |
| to heaven | 5 |
| and the heavens | 4 |
| as the heavens | 4 |
| heavens | 4 |
| even the highest heavens | 3 |
| is in heaven | 3 |
| the skies | 3 |
| toward heaven | 3 |
| your heavens | 3 |
| horizon | 2 |
| i call heaven | 2 |
| in the air | 2 |
| into the air | 2 |
| let the heavens | 2 |
| sky | 2 |
| the highest heavens | 2 |
| to the sky | 2 |
| up to heaven | 2 |
| when the skies | 2 |
| against the heavens | 1 |
| and call heaven | 1 |
| and heaven | 1 |
| and the skies | 1 |
| as the sky itself | 1 |
| belong the heavens | 1 |
| do the skies alone | 1 |
| even the highest | 1 |
| from heaven above | 1 |
| from the heavens | 1 |
| i will make the heavens | 1 |
| if even the heavens | 1 |
| in heaven but you | 1 |
| in smoke | 1 |
| into heaven | 1 |
| into the sky | 1 |
| is on his heavenly | 1 |
| let heaven | 1 |
| o highest heavens | 1 |
| reaches to the heavens | 1 |
| than the heavens | 1 |
| the heavens endure | 1 |
| then heaven | 1 |
| thus the heavens | 1 |
| upon the highest | 1 |
| who is in heaven | 1 |
| your sky | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of heaven | 82 |
| the heavens | 33 |
| from heaven | 32 |
| of the heaven | 21 |
| heaven | 20 |
| of the air | 18 |
| in heaven | 15 |
| the heaven | 12 |
| to heaven | 11 |
| and the heavens | 10 |
| in the heavens | 10 |
| toward heaven | 9 |
| above the heavens | 7 |
| of heavens | 7 |
| thou in heaven | 7 |
| from under heaven | 6 |
| unto heaven | 6 |
| and the heaven | 5 |
| into heaven | 5 |
| of the heavens | 5 |
| out of heaven | 5 |
| under the whole heaven | 5 |
| in the heaven | 4 |
| thou from the heavens | 4 |
| and heaven | 3 |
| o ye heavens | 3 |
| thou from heaven | 3 |
| to the heavens | 3 |
| under the heaven | 3 |
| unto the heavens | 3 |
| behold the heaven | 2 |
| heavens | 2 |
| in the air | 2 |
| let the heavens | 2 |
| o heavens | 2 |
| thy heavens | 2 |
| against the heavens | 1 |
| also his heavens | 1 |
| also of the air | 1 |
| and thy heaven | 1 |
| as heaven | 1 |
| behold heaven | 1 |
| beneath for the heavens | 1 |
| between the heaven | 1 |
| for as the heaven | 1 |
| for under the whole heaven | 1 |
| for us to heaven | 1 |
| forth the heavens | 1 |
| from the heavens | 1 |
| from under the heavens | 1 |
| he in heaven | 1 |
| him from heaven | 1 |
| him ye heavens | 1 |
| if heaven | 1 |
| in the very heavens | 1 |
| it toward the heaven | 1 |
| it up toward heaven | 1 |
| let now the astrologers | 1 |
| let the heaven | 1 |
| like thee in heaven | 1 |
| like thee in the heaven | 1 |
| not in heaven | 1 |
| not till the heavens | 1 |
| now toward heaven | 1 |
| or can the heavens | 1 |
| seeing the heaven | 1 |
| that the heaven | 1 |
| the whole heaven | 1 |
| them the heavens | 1 |
| then the heaven | 1 |
| therefore the heaven | 1 |
| thus the heavens | 1 |
| to the heaven | 1 |
| under heaven | 1 |
| unto him out of heaven | 1 |
| upon the heaven | 1 |
| upon the heavens | 1 |
| upon them out of heaven | 1 |
| were the heavens | 1 |
| when heaven | 1 |
| when the heaven | 1 |
| whom have i in heaven | 1 |
| with them from heaven | 1 |
| with you from heaven | 1 |
| ye heavens | 1 |
| yea the heavens | 1 |
| your heaven | 1 |
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and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
Read word by wordIt is a sign between Me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”
Read word by wordRemember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”
Read word by wordI will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
Read word by wordThe LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Read word by wordWhere can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
Read word by wordThis very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”
Read word by word“O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as Yours?
Read word by wordYou came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.
Read word by wordof any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air,
Read word by wordWhen you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
Read word by wordI call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
Read word by wordIndeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
Read word by wordHe let you hear His voice from heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.
Read word by wordKnow therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by wordHe will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.
Read word by wordHear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
Read word by wordLeave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
Read word by wordBehold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.
Read word by wordYour fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Read word by wordBut the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
Read word by wordor the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
Read word by wordso that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
Read word by wordand going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden—
Read word by wordWhen the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
Read word by wordLook down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.”
Read word by wordThe LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
Read word by wordThe sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
Read word by wordThe LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
Read word by wordYour corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.
Read word by wordYou who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Read word by wordThe LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 29.19
Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.
Read word by wordIt is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
Read word by wordI call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
Read word by wordAssemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officers so that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
Read word by wordGive ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
Read word by wordFor I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,
Read word by wordConcerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,
Read word by word“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
Read word by wordSo Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.
Read word by wordWhen we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.
Read word by wordWhen the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now turned against their pursuers.
Read word by wordAs they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.
Read word by wordSo the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”
Read word by wordO LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
Read word by wordFrom the heavens the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera.
Read word by wordWhen the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.
Read word by wordBut when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.
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