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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This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:
Read word by wordSing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.
Read word by wordThus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,
Read word by wordDrip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.
Read word by wordIt is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host.
Read word by wordFor thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.
Read word by wordYou are wearied by your many counselors; let them come forward now and save you—your astrologers who observe the stars, who monthly predict your fate.
Read word by wordSurely My own hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand up together.
Read word by wordShout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
Read word by wordI clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”
Read word by wordLift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.
Read word by wordBut you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?
Read word by wordI have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”
Read word by word“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
Read word by wordFor just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
Read word by wordLook down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
Read word by wordIf only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 63.19
For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?
Read word by word“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so your descendants and your name will endure.
Read word by wordBe stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD.
Read word by wordI looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.
Read word by wordI looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the air had fled.
Read word by wordTherefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”
Read word by wordThe sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
Read word by wordThe corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
Read word by wordThey will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.
Read word by wordEven the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
Read word by wordI will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.9
This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.
Read word by wordThe LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
Read word by wordWhen He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Read word by wordCan the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
Read word by wordI will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
Read word by word“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”
Read word by wordAnd in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
Read word by wordThe houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
Read word by word“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!
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 wordThis is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
Read word by wordI will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
Read word by wordInstead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
Read word by wordBut from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”
Read word by word“Moreover,” said the women, “when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands your words: ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Go ahead, then, do what you have promised! Keep your vows!
Read word by wordI will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elam’s exiles will not go.
Read word by word“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
Read word by wordThe LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
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