Midvash

מַיִםmayim

מוֺ: = מַי water

Pronunciation: mah'-yim · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4325

Meanings

מַי: waters, water

1.

a. water (Genesis 16:7; Genesis 24:11; Genesis 24:13)

b. of a river (Exodus 2:10; Exodus 4:9; Jeremiah 2:18)

c. of sea (Amos 5:8; Amos 9:6; Exodus 15:8)

d. of flood (Genesis 7:7; Genesis 7:10; Genesis 8:3)

e. subterranean (Exodus 20:4; Deuteronomy 4:18; Deuteronomy 5:8)

f. in clouds (Jeremiah 10:13; Job 26:8; Psalms 29:3)

g. of rain (Judges 5:4; 2 Samuel 21:10; Deuteronomy 11:11)

h. of dew (Judges 6:38)

i. primÊval deep (Genesis 1:2; Genesis 1:6)

2. with proper names, of location (q. v.), to denote springs, streams, or seas belonging to, near, such places (Exodus 7:19; Exodus 8:2; Joshua 11:5)

3. special uses are (2 Kings 18:27; Isaiah 36:12; Isaiah 25:10)

4. among figurative uses are

a. many waters, deep waters (Isaiah 43:2; Psalms 66:12; Psalms 69:2)

feminine of transitoriness (Job 11:16; Job 24:18; Psalms 58:8)

j. stolen waters. (Song of Solomon 4:15; Proverbs 5:15; Proverbs 9:17)

m. of outpoured feelings (Job 3:24; Lamentations 2:19; Isaiah 48:1)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 581 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 1:2 The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
  • Genesis 1:6 Then God said, “Let there be a space between the waters, to separate the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth.”
  • Genesis 1:7 And that is what happened. God made this space to separate the waters of the earth from the waters of the heavens.
  • Genesis 1:9 Then God said, “Let the waters beneath the sky flow together into one place, so dry ground may appear.” And that is what happened.
  • Genesis 1:10 God called the dry ground “land” and the waters “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
  • Genesis 1:20 Then God said, “Let the waters swarm with fish and other life. Let the skies be filled with birds of every kind.”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).