שָׁמַיִם
sha.ma.yim
1. heaven, heavens, sky
a. visible heavens, sky
1. as abode of the stars
2. as the visible universe, the sky, atmosphere, etc
b. Heaven (as the abode of God)
Aramaic equivalent: sha.ma.yin (שָׁמַ֫יִן "heaven" H8065)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
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Concordance 395 verses
- Exodus 24:10 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
- Exodus 31:17 הַשָּׁמַ֣יִם
It is a sign between Me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”
- Exodus 32:13 הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם
Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”
- Leviticus 26:19 שְׁמֵיכֶם֙
I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
- Deuteronomy 1:10 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.
- Deuteronomy 1:28 בַּשָּׁמָ֑יִם
Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
- Deuteronomy 2:25 הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם
This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”
- Deuteronomy 3:24 בַּשָּׁמַ֣יִם
“O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as Yours?
- Deuteronomy 4:11 הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם
You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.
- Deuteronomy 4:17 בַּשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air,
- Deuteronomy 4:19 הַשָּׁמַ֗יְמָההַשָּׁמַ֔יִםהַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
- Deuteronomy 4:26 הַשָּׁמַ֣יִם
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 4:32 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִםהַשָּׁמָ֑יִם
Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
- Deuteronomy 4:36 הַשָּׁמַ֛יִם
He let you hear His voice from heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.
- Deuteronomy 4:39 בַּשָּׁמַ֣יִם
Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.
- Deuteronomy 5:8 בַּשָּׁמַ֣֙יִם֙׀
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
- Deuteronomy 7:24 הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם
He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.
- Deuteronomy 9:1 בַּשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
- Deuteronomy 9:14 הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם
Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
- Deuteronomy 10:14 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִםוּשְׁמֵ֣יהַשָּׁמָ֑יִם
Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.
- Deuteronomy 10:22 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
- Deuteronomy 11:11 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
- Deuteronomy 11:17 הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙
or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 11:21 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
- Deuteronomy 17:3 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden—
- Deuteronomy 25:19 הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם
When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
- Deuteronomy 26:15 הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם
Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.”
- Deuteronomy 28:12 הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם
The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
- Deuteronomy 28:23 שָׁמֶ֛יךָ
The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
- Deuteronomy 28:24 הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙
The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 28:26 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.
- Deuteronomy 28:62 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 29:20 הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
- Deuteronomy 30:4 הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם
Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.
- Deuteronomy 30:12 בַשָּׁמַ֖יִםהַשָּׁמַ֙יְמָה֙
It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
- Deuteronomy 30:19 הַשָּׁמַ֣יִם
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
- Deuteronomy 31:28 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officers so that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
- Deuteronomy 32:1 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
- Deuteronomy 32:40 שָׁמַ֖יִם
For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,
- Deuteronomy 33:13 שָׁמַ֙יִם֙
Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,
- Deuteronomy 33:26 שָׁמַ֙יִם֙
“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
- Deuteronomy 33:28 שָׁמָ֖יו
So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.
- Joshua 2:11 בַּשָּׁמַ֣יִם
When we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.
- Joshua 8:20 הַשָּׁמַ֔יְמָה
When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.
- Joshua 10:11 הַשָּׁמַ֛יִם
As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.
- Joshua 10:13 הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם
So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”
- Judges 5:4 שָׁמַ֖יִם
O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
- Judges 5:20 שָׁמַ֖יִם
From the heavens the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera.
- Judges 13:20 הַשָּׁמַ֔יְמָה
When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.
- Judges 20:40 הַשָּׁמָֽיְמָה׃
But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.