Hebrew Study
Strong’s Concordance H3220
A readable Hebrew dictionary entry from Strong’s Concordance. Definitions help with word study; the meaning in a verse still depends on context.
Word study
- Source
- Strong’s Concordance
- Transliteration
- yam
- Pronunciation
- yawm
- Occurrences
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- Strong’s number
- H3220
- Brief meaning
- 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
- Source renderings
- sea (-faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward)
- Root word
- from an unused root meaning to roar
- Full definition from the source
- 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. Root word: from an unused root meaning to roar.
Source info
Source and edition
James Strong, Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary (1890); Bible Foundation text source; Michael Grier's 1996 ASCII e-text; CrossWire module 1.2.
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03220\ 3220 yam yawm from an unused root meaning to roar; 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:--sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).