{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H8064",
  "lemma": "שָׁמַיִם",
  "transliteration": "shâmayim",
  "definition": "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).",
  "occurrences": 421,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[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"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:1",
      "text": "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:8",
      "text": "God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:9",
      "text": "God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:14",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:15",
      "text": "and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:17",
      "text": "God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:20",
      "text": "God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:26",
      "text": "God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:28",
      "text": "God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:30",
      "text": "To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=30"
    }
  ],
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