Shamayim — Heavens
Always plural in Hebrew — 'the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee.'
Pronunciation: shaw-mah'-yim
Hebrew · Strong's H8064 · 395 occurrences in the Old Testament (KJV)
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 translations: air, [idiom] astrologer, heaven(-s).
Shamayim in the Bible — example verses
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”Genesis 1:1 (KJV)
“And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.”Genesis 1:8 (KJV)
“And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.”Genesis 1:9 (KJV)
“And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:”Genesis 1:14 (KJV)
“And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.”Genesis 1:15 (KJV)
“And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,”Genesis 1:17 (KJV)
“And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.”Genesis 1:20 (KJV)
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”Genesis 1:26 (KJV)
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