Strong's H3220
יָם
- Language:
- Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament)
Definition
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
Derivation
from an unused root meaning to roar;
KJV Translation
In the King James Version, יָם is translated as: sea ([idiom] -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward)..
About Strong's Concordance
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, compiled by James Strong in 1890, assigns a unique number to every Hebrew and Aramaic root word in the Old Testament. The Hebrew dictionary covers all 8,674 root words. This entry is in the public domain.