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Ezekiel 27:26
“Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
מַיִםmayim · mah'-yim
H4325 · Hebrew
H4325 · Hebrew
- Definition
- water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
- Derivation
- dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense);
- KJV renderings
- [phrase] piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
- Grammar
- בְּ — preposition
- מַ֤יִם — common noun, masculine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 582 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 1:2Genesis 1:6Genesis 1:6Genesis 1:6Genesis 1:7
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מַיִם here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.