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)
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Concordance 395 verses
- 1 Samuel 2:10 בַּשָּׁמַ֣יִם
Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”
- 1 Samuel 5:12 הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
- 1 Samuel 17:44 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
“Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”
- 1 Samuel 17:46 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
- 2 Samuel 18:9 הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙
Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.
- 2 Samuel 21:10 הַשָּׁמָ֑יִםהַשָּׁמַ֜יִם
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
- 2 Samuel 22:8 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
Then the earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the heavens trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.
- 2 Samuel 22:10 שָׁמַ֖יִם
He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.
- 2 Samuel 22:14 שָׁמַ֖יִם
The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.
- 1 Kings 8:22 הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
- 1 Kings 8:23 בַּשָּׁמַ֣יִם
and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
- 1 Kings 8:27 הַשָּׁמַ֜יִםוּשְׁמֵ֤יהַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙
But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
- 1 Kings 8:30 הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם
Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.
- 1 Kings 8:32 הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם
then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
- 1 Kings 8:34 הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם
then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to their fathers.
- 1 Kings 8:35 שָׁמַ֛יִם
When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
- 1 Kings 8:36 הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם
then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
- 1 Kings 8:39 הַשָּׁמַ֜יִם
be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and act, and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of all men—
- 1 Kings 8:43 הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.
- 1 Kings 8:45 הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם
then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.
- 1 Kings 8:49 הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause.
- 1 Kings 8:54 הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
Now when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.
- 1 Kings 14:11 הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם
Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.’ For the LORD has spoken.
- 1 Kings 16:4 הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.”
- 1 Kings 18:45 וְהַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙
Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.
- 1 Kings 21:24 הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.”
- 1 Kings 22:19 הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙
Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.
- 2 Kings 1:10 הַשָּׁמַ֔יִםהַשָּׁמַ֔יִם
Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” And fire came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men.
- 2 Kings 1:12 הַשָּׁמַ֔יִםהַשָּׁמַ֔יִם
Again Elijah replied, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men.
- 2 Kings 1:14 הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם
Behold, fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty, with all their men. But now may my life be precious in your sight.”
- 2 Kings 2:1 הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם
Shortly before the LORD took Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal,
- 2 Kings 2:11 הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.
- 2 Kings 7:2 בַּשָּׁמַ֔יִם
But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
- 2 Kings 7:19 בַּשָּׁמַ֔יִם
And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
- 2 Kings 14:27 הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם
and since the LORD had said that He would not blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.
- 2 Kings 17:16 הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם
They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.
- 2 Kings 19:15 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.
- 2 Kings 21:3 הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם
For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
- 2 Kings 21:5 הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם
In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
- 2 Kings 23:4 הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
- 2 Kings 23:5 הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
- 1 Chronicles 16:26 שָׁמַ֥יִם
For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.
- 1 Chronicles 16:31 הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙
Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice. Let them say among the nations, ‘The LORD reigns!’
- 1 Chronicles 21:16 הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם
When David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
- 1 Chronicles 21:26 הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם
And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called upon the LORD, who answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
- 1 Chronicles 27:23 הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11 בַּשָּׁמַ֣יִם
Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
- 2 Chronicles 2:6 הַשָּׁמַ֛יִםוּשְׁמֵ֥יהַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before Him?
- 2 Chronicles 2:12 הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
And Hiram added: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth! He has given King David a wise son with insight and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
- 2 Chronicles 6:13 הַשָּׁמָֽיְמָה׃
Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on it, knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,