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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Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”
Read word by wordThose who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
Read word by word“Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”
Read word by wordThis day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
Read word by wordNow Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.
Read word by wordAnd Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Read word by wordThen the earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the heavens trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.
Read word by wordHe parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.
Read word by wordThe LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.
Read word by wordThen Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
Read word by wordand said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
Read word by wordBut will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
Read word by wordHear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.
Read word by wordthen may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
Read word by wordthen may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to their fathers.
Read word by wordWhen the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
Read word by wordthen may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
Read word by wordbe heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and act, and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of all men—
Read word by wordthen may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.
Read word by wordthen may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.
Read word by wordthen may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause.
Read word by wordNow when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.
Read word by wordAnyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.’ For the LORD has spoken.
Read word by wordAnyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.”
Read word by wordMeanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.
Read word by wordAnyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.”
Read word by wordMicaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.
Read word by wordElijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” And fire came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men.
Read word by wordAgain Elijah replied, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men.
Read word by wordBehold, fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty, with all their men. But now may my life be precious in your sight.”
Read word by wordShortly before the LORD took Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal,
Read word by wordAs they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.
Read word by wordBut the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
Read word by wordAnd the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
Read word by wordand since the LORD had said that He would not blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.
Read word by wordThey abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.
Read word by wordAnd Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.
Read word by wordFor he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
Read word by wordIn both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
Read word by wordThen the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
Read word by wordJosiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
Read word by wordFor all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.
Read word by wordLet the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice. Let them say among the nations, ‘The LORD reigns!’
Read word by wordWhen David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
Read word by wordAnd there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called upon the LORD, who answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
Read word by wordDavid did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.
Read word by wordYours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
Read word by wordBut who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before Him?
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 2.5
And Hiram added: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth! He has given King David a wise son with insight and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 2.11
Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on it, knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
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