H8064 שָׁמַיִם
shâmayim — 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: air, [idiom] astrologer, heaven(-s).
Occurs 421 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [שָׁמַי] n.m. only pl. שָׁמַיִם 421 heavens, sky
- a visible heavens, sky, where stars, etc., are
- b phrases
- a as abode of God
- b Elijah taken up הַשּׁ׳ in whirlwind
- 3 הַשּׁ׳ personified in various relations
Where it occurs
- Genesis 1:1 — In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- Genesis 1:8 — God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
- Genesis 1:9 — God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.
- Genesis 1:14 — God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to…
- Genesis 1:15 — and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.
- Genesis 1:17 — God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,
- Genesis 1:20 — God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the…
- Genesis 1:26 — God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over…
- Genesis 1:28 — God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish…
- Genesis 1:30 — To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there…