# H8064 שָׁמַיִם

שָׁמַיִם (shâmayim), Strong’s H8064: 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…

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*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.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=1) — In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- [Genesis 1:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=8) — God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
- [Genesis 1:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=17) — God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,
- [Genesis 1:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=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…