יָם
H3220noun395 occurrences
Definition
yam (yawm) n-m.
1. a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water
2. specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea
3. sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin
4. locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
[from an unused root meaning to roar]
KJV: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Form
- Part of speech: noun
- Gender: masculine
- Occurrences: 395
First occurrence
From Strong's Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary (1890), which is public domain. This bundle carries the words that spell biblical names and the roots they are built from; the full lexicon of 8,674 entries ships as a bulk table.