H8064 Hebrew
שָׁמַיִם
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)
- Transliteration
- shâmayim
- Pronunciation
- shaw-mah'-yim
- Concordance
- 840 occurrences
- Dictionary
- Air Webster's 1828 Dictionary
- Definition
- 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 usage
- air, [idiom] astrologer, heaven(-s).