מַי
water
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 477 times (82%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 104 times (18%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (0%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 582 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 3 of 3 — showing verses 401–525 of 525 distinct verses where H4325 appears, across 33 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Isaiah 53 verses
- Isaiah 30:25 מָ֑יִם n c mp There shall be on every lofty mountain, and on every high hill, brooks [and] streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
- Isaiah 32:2 מַ֣יִם n c mp A man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
- Isaiah 32:20 מָ֑יִם n c mp Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send forth the feet of the ox and the donkey.
- Isaiah 33:16 מֵימָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall be sure.
- Isaiah 35:6 מַ֔יִם n c mp Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the mute shall sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
- Isaiah 35:7 מָ֑יִם n c mp The glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
- Isaiah 36:12 מֵימֵ֥י n c mp cs But Rabshakeh said, Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? [has he] not [sent me] to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?
- Isaiah 36:16 מֵי n c mp cs Don't listen to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat you everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and drink you everyone the waters of his own cistern;
- Isaiah 37:25 מָ֑יִם n c mp I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
- Isaiah 40:12 מַ֗יִם n c mp Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the sky with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
- Isaiah 41:17 מַ֨יִם֙ n c mp The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst; I, Yahweh, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
- Isaiah 41:18 מַ֔יִם מָֽיִם n c mp n c mp I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
- Isaiah 43:2 בַּ/מַּ֨יִם֙ prep det + n c mp When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle on you.
- Isaiah 43:16 וּ/בְ/מַ֥יִם conj + prep + n c mp Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
- Isaiah 43:20 מַ֗יִם n c mp The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
- Isaiah 44:3 מַ֨יִם֙ n c mp For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring:
- Isaiah 44:4 מָֽיִם n c mp and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
- Isaiah 44:12 מַ֖יִם n c mp The smith [makes] an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.
- Isaiah 44:24 מי n c mp cs Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who stretches forth the heavens alone; who spreads abroad the earth (who is with me?);
- Isaiah 48:1 וּ/מִ/מֵּ֥י conj + prep + n c mp cs Hear you this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness
- Isaiah 48:21 מַ֥יִם מָֽיִם n c mp n c mp They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
- Isaiah 49:10 מַ֖יִם n c mp They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water will he guide them.
- Isaiah 50:2 מַ֔יִם n c mp Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
- Isaiah 51:10 מֵ֖י n c mp cs Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
- Isaiah 54:9 מֵ֥י מֵי n c mp cs n c mp cs For this is [as] the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
- Isaiah 55:1 לַ/מַּ֔יִם prep det + n c mp Ho, everyone who thirsts, come you to the waters, and he who has no money; come you, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
- Isaiah 57:20 מֵימָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.
- Isaiah 58:11 מַ֔יִם מֵימָֽי/ו n c mp n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail.
- Isaiah 63:12 מַ֨יִם֙ n c mp who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
- Isaiah 64:2 מַ֚יִם n c mp as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
Jeremiah 26 verses
- Jeremiah 2:13 מַ֣יִם הַ/מָּֽיִם n c mp ptcl def.art + n c mp For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- Jeremiah 2:18 מֵ֣י מֵ֥י n c mp cs n c mp cs Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
- Jeremiah 6:7 מֵימֶ֔י/הָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
- Jeremiah 8:14 מֵי n c mp cs Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 9:1 מַ֔יִם n c mp Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
- Jeremiah 9:15 מֵי n c mp cs therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
- Jeremiah 9:18 מָֽיִם n c mp and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
- Jeremiah 10:13 מַ֨יִם֙ n c mp when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
- Jeremiah 13:1 וּ/בַ/מַּ֖יִם conj + prep det + n c mp Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy you a linen belt, and put it on your loins, and don't put it in water.
- Jeremiah 14:3 לַ/מָּ֑יִם מַ֗יִם prep det + n c mp n c mp Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.
- Jeremiah 15:18 מַ֖יִם n c mp Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
- Jeremiah 17:8 מַ֗יִם n c mp For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
- Jeremiah 17:13 מַֽיִם n c mp Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.
- Jeremiah 18:14 מַ֛יִם n c mp Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?
- Jeremiah 23:15 מֵי n c mp cs Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
- Jeremiah 31:9 מַ֔יִם n c mp They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
- Jeremiah 38:6 מַ֨יִם֙ n c mp Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
- Jeremiah 41:12 מַ֥יִם n c mp then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.
- Jeremiah 46:7 מֵימָֽי/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
- Jeremiah 46:8 מָ֑יִם n c mp Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants of it.
- Jeremiah 47:2 מַ֜יִם n c mp Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
- Jeremiah 48:34 מֵ֣י n c mp cs From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.
- Jeremiah 50:38 מֵימֶ֖י/הָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
- Jeremiah 51:13 מַ֣יִם n c mp You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come, the measure of your covetousness.
- Jeremiah 51:16 מַ֨יִם֙ n c mp when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
- Jeremiah 51:55 כְּ/מַ֣יִם prep + n c mp For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:
Lamentations 5 verses
- Lamentations 1:16 מַּ֔יִם n c mp For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.
- Lamentations 2:19 כַ/מַּ֨יִם֙ prep det + n c mp Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
- Lamentations 3:48 מַ֨יִם֙ n c mp My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Lamentations 3:54 מַ֥יִם n c mp Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
- Lamentations 5:4 מֵימֵ֨י/נוּ֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.
Ezekiel 40 verses
- Ezekiel 1:24 מַ֨יִם n c mp When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of a host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
- Ezekiel 4:11 וּ/מַ֛יִם conj + n c mp You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you drink.
- Ezekiel 4:16 וּ/מַ֕יִם conj + n c mp Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
- Ezekiel 4:17 וָ/מָ֑יִם conj + n c mp that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
- Ezekiel 7:17 מָּֽיִם n c mp All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
- Ezekiel 12:18 וּ/מֵימֶ֕י/ךָ conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;
- Ezekiel 12:19 וּ/מֵֽימֵי/הֶ֖ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, [and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.
- Ezekiel 16:4 וּ/בְ/מַ֥יִם conj + prep + n c mp As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
- Ezekiel 16:9 בַּ/מַּ֔יִם prep det + n c mp Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
- Ezekiel 17:5 מַ֣יִם n c mp He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree.
- Ezekiel 17:8 מַ֥יִם n c mp It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
- Ezekiel 19:10 מַ֣יִם מִ/מַּ֥יִם n c mp prep + n c mp Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
- Ezekiel 21:7 מַּ֔יִם n c mp It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say, Because of the news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 24:3 מָֽיִם n c mp Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:
- Ezekiel 26:12 מַ֖יִם n c mp They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.
- Ezekiel 26:19 הַ/מַּ֥יִם ptcl def.art + n c mp For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you;
- Ezekiel 27:26 בְּ/מַ֤יִם prep + n c mp Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.
- Ezekiel 27:34 מָ֑יִם n c mp In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall in the midst of you.
- Ezekiel 31:4 מַ֣יִם n c mp The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers of it ran round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.
- Ezekiel 31:5 מִ/מַּ֥יִם prep + n c mp Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.
- Ezekiel 31:7 מַ֥יִם n c mp Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.
- Ezekiel 31:14 מַ֗יִם מָ֑יִם n c mp n c mp to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.
- Ezekiel 31:15 מַ֣יִם n c mp Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers of it; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
- Ezekiel 31:16 מָֽיִם n c mp I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.
- Ezekiel 32:2 מַ֨יִם֙ n c mp Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet are you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.
- Ezekiel 32:13 מַ֣יִם n c mp I will destroy also all the animals of it from beside many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of animals trouble them.
- Ezekiel 32:14 מֵֽימֵי/הֶ֔ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 34:18 מַ֣יִם n c mp Seems it a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?
- Ezekiel 36:25 מַ֥יִם n c mp I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
- Ezekiel 43:2 מַ֣יִם n c mp Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his glory.
- Ezekiel 47:1 מַ֣יִם וְ/הַ/מַּ֣יִם n c mp conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp He brought me back to the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; (for the forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.
- Ezekiel 47:2 מַ֣יִם n c mp Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of [the gate] that looks toward the east; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
- Ezekiel 47:3 בַ/מַּ֖יִם מֵ֥י prep det + n c mp n c mp cs When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.
- Ezekiel 47:4 בַ/מַּ֖יִם מַ֣יִם מֵ֥י prep det + n c mp n c mp n c mp cs Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through [the waters], waters that were to the loins.
- Ezekiel 47:5 הַ/מַּ֨יִם֙ מֵ֣י ptcl def.art + n c mp n c mp cs Afterward he measured one thousand; [and it was] a river that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.
- Ezekiel 47:8 הַ/מַּ֤יִם הַ/מָּֽיִם ptcl def.art + n c mp ptcl def.art + n c mp Then said he to me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea [shall the waters go] which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed.
- Ezekiel 47:9 הַ/מַּ֣יִם ptcl def.art + n c mp It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters are come there, and [the waters of the sea] shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.
- Ezekiel 47:12 מֵימָ֔י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms By the river on the bank of it, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall the fruit of it fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because the waters of it issue out of the sanctuary; and the fruit of it shall be for food, and the leaf of it for healing.
- Ezekiel 47:19 מֵי֙ n c mp cs The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea. This is the south side southward.
- Ezekiel 48:28 מֵ֚י n c mp cs By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.
Daniel 3 verses
- Daniel 1:12 וּ/מַ֥יִם conj + n c mp Prove your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
- Daniel 12:6 לְ/מֵימֵ֣י prep + n c mp cs One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
- Daniel 12:7 לְ/מֵימֵ֣י prep + n c mp cs I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have made an end of breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
Hosea 3 verses
- Hosea 2:5 וּ/מֵימַ֔/י conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, My oil and my drink.'
- Hosea 5:10 כַּ/מַּ֖יִם prep det + n c mp The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
- Hosea 10:7 מָֽיִם n c mp Samaria and her king float away, Like a twig on the water.
Joel 2 verses
- Joel 1:20 מָ֔יִם n c mp Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, For the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
- Joel 3:18 מָ֑יִם n c mp It will happen in that day, That the mountains will drop down sweet wine, The hills will flow with milk, All the brooks of Judah will flow with waters; And a fountain will come forth from the house of Yahweh, And will water the valley of Shittim.
Amos 5 verses
- Amos 4:8 מַ֖יִם n c mp So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, And were not satisfied: Yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
- Amos 5:8 לְ/מֵֽי prep + n c mp cs Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, And turns the shadow of death into the morning, And makes the day dark with night; Who calls for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
- Amos 5:24 כַּ/מַּ֖יִם prep det + n c mp But let justice roll on like rivers, And righteousness like a mighty stream.
- Amos 8:11 לַ/מַּ֔יִם prep det + n c mp Behold, the days come," says the Lord Yahweh, "That I will send a famine in the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of Yahweh.
- Amos 9:6 לְ/מֵֽי prep + n c mp cs It is he who builds his chambers in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.
Jonah 2 verses
- Jonah 2:5 מַ֨יִם֙ n c mp The waters surrounded me, Even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
- Jonah 3:7 וּ/מַ֖יִם conj + n c ms He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
Micah 1 verse
Nahum 3 verses
- Nahum 2:8 מַ֖יִם n c mp But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one looks back.
- Nahum 3:8 מַ֖יִם n c mp Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
- Nahum 3:14 מֵ֤י n c mp cs Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
Habakkuk 3 verses
- Habakkuk 2:14 כַּ/מַּ֖יִם prep det + n c mp For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
- Habakkuk 3:10 מַ֖יִם n c mp The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The tempest of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
- Habakkuk 3:15 מַ֥יִם n c mp You trampled the sea with your horses, Churning mighty waters.
Zechariah 2 verses
- Zechariah 9:11 מַ֖יִם n c mp As for you also, Because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
- Zechariah 14:8 מַֽיִם n c mp It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
מים (mayim) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “water.” Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. With 525 verses in 33 books, it is one of the most common word in the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Genesis 1:2. It clusters with מידבא, מי הירקון and מי זהב under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4325 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 525
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 525 distinct verses.
- 33 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 33 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #85
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 85 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 525 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 525 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 226 verses · 43%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 180 verses · 34%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 119 verses · 23%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Water 252×, Waters 224×, Himself in water 12×
- American Standard Version: Water 224×, Waters 204×, Himself in water 13×
- Berean Standard Bible: Water 292×, Waters 162×, Like water 14×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Water 286×, Waters 175×, Waters of 51×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4325 across 578 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 59 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4325 across 575 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 97 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4325 across 532 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 48 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 43 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4325 across 606 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
25 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 25 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1.
- a. water, of a spring or well (עַיִן, בְּאֵר) Gn 16:7; 24:11, 13(×2), 43 Ex 15:27(×2) (J), Gn 21:19, 25 Nu 20:17; 21:16 (E), etc.; for drinking, also Am 4:8; 8:11 Jon 3:7 + often; out of rock Ex 17:6 (E), Nu 20:8(×2), 10, 11 (P), Dt 8:15 etc.; מֵי מְרִיבָה (RSSem. i. 165. 2nd ed. 181) Nu 20:13, 24; 27:14 (P), Dt 33:8 ψ 81:8 106:32; cf. Dt 32:51 Ez 47:19; 48:28; for washing (hands, feet, person) Gn 18:4; 24:32; 43:24 (J), 2 K 3:11, Ex 29:4; 30:20 Lv 15:5, 6 + (P); (victims) Lv 1:9, 13; 8:21 (P); (vessels) Lv 6:21; 11:32, 34 (P); (garments) Lv 15:17 Nu 19:8 (P); for cooking Ex 12:9 (P), cf. Is 64:1 Ez 24:3 (symbol.); for purification Nu 8:7 (מֵי חַטָּאת), 19:9 (מֵי נִדָּה), cf. v 13, 18, 20, 21, 20:13; 31:23(×2) (all P), Ez 36:25 (fig.). e.g. Genesis 16:7
- b. of a river, Nile Ex 2:10; 4:9(×2) (J), Je 2:18 etc.; Jordan Jos 3:8 (D), v 15, 16 (JE), etc.; Euphrates Is 8:7 (fig.), Je 2:18; Ezek.’s river Ez 47:1(×2), 2 +, etc.; of streams, canals, etc., especially as condition of fertility Dt 8:7; 10:7 Is 1:30 Pr 30:16 2 K 3:17 +, etc. e.g. Exodus 2:10
- c. of sea Am 5:8; 9:6; Red Sea Ex 15:8, 10, 19 (song), 14:21, 22, 26 + (P), Jos 2:10 (D), etc. e.g. Amos 5:8
- d. of flood Gn 7:7, 10; 8:3, 7, 8, 9, 11 (J), 6:17; 7:6, 17, 18(×2) 19; 8:5; 9:11, 15 (P); so מֵי־נֹחַ Is 54:9(×2) waters of Noah. e.g. Genesis 7:7
- e. subterranean Ex 20:4 (E), Dt 4:18; 5:8, cf. Jb 26:5 ψ 136:6. e.g. Exodus 20:4
- f. in clouds Je 10:13 Jb 26:8 ψ 29:3(×2) 104:3; 148:4, etc. e.g. Jeremiah 10:13
- g. of rain Ju 5:4 2 S 21:10 Dt 11:11 ψ 65:10 Jb 5:10 (‖ מָטָר), etc. e.g. Judges 5:4
- h. of dew Ju 6:38. e.g. Judges 6:38
- i. primæval deep Gn 1:2, 6 (P). e.g. Genesis 1:2
- 2. c. nomm. pr. loc. (q.v.), to denote springs, streams, or seas belonging to, near, such places: מֵימֵי מִצְרַיִם Ex 7:19; 8:2; מֵי מְרִיבָה (v. supr. 1 a); מֵי מֵרוֹם Jos 11:5, 7; מֵי עֵין־שֶׁמֶשׁ Jos 15:7; מֵי נֶפְתּוֹחַ 15:9; 18:15; מֵי יְרִיחוֹ 16:1; מֵי מְגִּדּוֹ Ju 5:19; מֵי נִמְרִ(יִ)ם Is 15:6 Je 48:34; מֵי דִימוֹן Is 15:9; cf. מֵי הַשִּׁלֹּחַ Is 8:6; מֵימֵי גִּיחוֹן הָעֶלְיוֹן 2 Ch 32:30; cf. also n. pr. loc. מִשְׂרְפוֹת מַיִם Jos 11:8; 13:6. e.g. Exodus 7:19
- 3. special uses are: מֵי רַגְלַיִם water of the feet = urine 2 K 18:27 = Is 36:12; cf. בְּמֵי מַדְמֵנָה Is 25:10 Kt in water of a dunghill (> Qr בְּמוֹ); מַיִם לַחַץ water (which is) distress, because drunk in imprisonment 1 K 22:27 (‖ לֶחֶם לַחַץ) = 2 Ch 18:26; בְּמֵי־שָׁ֑לֶג in snow-water Jb 9:30 Qr (Kt במו; Me Hoffm Siegfr כְּמוֹ), מֵימֵי שֶׁלֶג 24:19; מַיִם קְדשִׁים †Nu 5:17 holy water (cf. RSSem. 165, 2nd ed. 181, but text dubious, v. Di); מֵי הַמָּרִים bitter water †Nu 5:18, 19, 23, 24; cf. Ex 15:23 (בִּי מָרִים הֵם), opp. וַיִּמְתְּקוּ הַמַּיִם v 25 and the waters were sweetened; מֵי חַטָּאת, מֵי נִדָּה v. supr. 1 a; מַיִם חַיִּים living (i.e. running) water Lv 14:5, 6, 50, 51, 52 Nu 19:17, also (fig.) Zc 14:8 (cf. Ez 47), and (fig.) Je 2:13; 17:13. See also infr. (cf. Nu 21:17, 18; v. RSSem. i. 127, 157; 2nd ed. 135, 176). e.g. 2 Kings 18:27
- 4. among fig. uses are:
- a. of danger or distress Is 43:2 ψ 66:12; 69:2 La 3:54; usually many waters 2 S 22:17 = ψ 18:17, cf. Jb 22:11 ψ 32:6; 144:7, or deep waters ψ 69:3, 15, cf. v 16; also מֵי־רֹאשׁ water of gall Je 8:14; 9:14; 23:15. e.g. Isaiah 43:2
- b. פֶּרֶץ מַיִם 2 S 5:20 = 1 Ch 14:11 of outbursting force. e.g. 2 Samuel 5:20
- c. שְׁאוֹן מַיִם Is 17:12, 13 or rushing nations. e.g. Isaiah 17:12
- d. of what is impetuous, violent, overwhelming Is 28:2, 17 Ho 10:7 Jb 27:20 ψ 124:4, 5; 88:18; sim. of impetuousness פַּחַז כַּמַּיִם Gn 49:4. e.g. Isaiah 28:2
- e. (as running away) of heart in timidity Jos 7:5, cf. ψ 22:15, of knees Ez 7:17; 21:12. e.g. Joshua 7:5
- f. of transitoriness Jb 11:16; 24:18 ψ 58:8. e.g. Job 11:16
- g. of refreshment Is 32:2; 49:10; spiritual 12:3. e.g. Isaiah 32:2
- h. מֵי מְנֻחוֹת ψ 23:2 in fig. of rest and peace, cf. Je 31:9. e.g. Psalms 23:2
- i. of reckless bloodshed (poured out like water) ψ 79:3; cf. pouring away (and not eating) blood Dt 12:16, 24; 15:23. e.g. Psalms 79:3
- j. בְּאֵר מַיִם חַיִּים Ct 4:15 fig. of bride; מַיִם מִבּוֹרֶ֑ךָ Pr 5:15 of enjoyment of one’s own wife; of harlotry מַיִם גְּנוּבִים Pr 9:17 stolen waters. e.g. Song of Solomon 4:15
- k. of outpoured wrath of י׳ Ho 5:10. e.g. Hosea 5:10
- l. of abundant justice Am 5:24. e.g. Amos 5:24
- m. of outpoured feelings Jb 3:24; שִׁפְכִי כַמַּיִם לִבֵּךְ La 2:19.—Is 48:1 read prob. מִמְּעֵי for MT מִמֵּי, so Secker Du CheHpt Skinner, cf. Di. e.g. Job 3:24
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. 2 S 14:14 only pl. מַ֫יִם waters, water (NH id.; MI 23 [ין]מ; SI 5 המים; Aramaic מַיָּא, מַיִּין, ܡܰܝܴ̈ܐ; Assyrian mû, pl. mê, also mâmu DlHWB 394; Arabic مَآءٌ; Ethiopic ማይ, pl. ማያት; Sab. [מו], מום, pl. מון, Min. [מה], pl. מהן DHM6th Or. Congr. (Leiden) ii. 1, 451 f. (v. on these forms BaZMG xiii, 1888, 341 ff.));—מַ֫יִם (מָ֑יִם) Gn 1:2 +; הַמַּ֫יְמָה Ex 7:15; 8:16; cstr. מֵי Gn 7:7 + 71 times; מֵימֵי Ex 4:9 + 10 times + Qr 2 K 18:27 = Is 36:12; sf. מֵימַי Ho 2:7 + 1 S 25:11 (but read here יֵינִי 𝔊 Ew Th We Klo Dr Kit Bu); מֵימֶ֫יךָ Ex 23:25 + 3 times; מֵימָיו Nu 20:8 + 6 times; מֵימֶיהָ Je 6:7; 50:38; מֵימֵינוּ La 5:4; מֵימֵיהֶם Ex 7:19 + 4 times;—waters, water (c. adj. pl. Gn 26:19 Ex 15:10 Lv 14:5, 6, 50 + often, so always c. adj.; also c. pt. pl. Nu 5:18, 19, 24 2 K 3:20 +; c. pron. pl. Nu 20:13; 27:14 2 K 2:21 +; cf. sf. Jos 4:18; before pl. vb. Gn 1:9, 20, 21; 7:17 + often; after pl. vb. Jos 3:13 Is 28:17 Pr 9:17 Ez 31:4 +; rarely c. sg. vb.; before, Gn 9:15 Lv 11:34 Nu 20:2; 24:7; 33:14 2 K 3:9; after, Nu 19:13, 20);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מַיִם
- water, fluid; secretion; solution. Constr. מֵי; pl. מֵימוֹת, constr. מֵימֵי. Snh. 108ᵃ גלגל העין שדומה למ׳ the eye-ball which (in restlessness) resembles water, v. גַּלְגַּל. Par. VIII, 9 המ׳ המוכים וכ׳ smitten waters (springs or lakes formed through a catastrophe, v. Snh. l. c.). Ib. המ׳ המכזבים, v. כָּזַב; a. v. fr.—מ׳ ראשונים, מ׳ אחרונים &c., v. respective determinants.—מֵי פירות juice of fruits (wine, date-honey, &c.). Pes. 35ᵃ sq.; a. fr.—מֵי רגלים urin. Ker. 6ᵃ; a. fr.—בֵּית המ׳ urinary. Meg. III, 2; Y. Ber. II, 4ᶜ bot.—Ḥag. 3ᵃ מֵימֶיךָ אנו שותין we drink thy water, i.e. we depend on thy teaching; B. Mets. 84ᵇ מֵימֵיהֶן אנו שותין; Hor. 14ᵃ; a. e.—Taan. 16ᵃ כל מימות וכ׳ all the waters of the world; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 158 distinct written forms H4325 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 98 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4325, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- מידבא Mêydᵉbâʼ H4311 Medeba
- מי הירקון Mêy hay-Yarqôwn H4313 Me-jarkon
- מי זהב Mêy Zâhâb H4314 Mezahab
Compare all same-root words → 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 494 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 525 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 1:2
- Exodus 2:10
- Leviticus 1:9
- Numbers 5:17
- Deuteronomy 2:6
- Joshua 2:10
- Judges 1:15
- 1 Samuel 7:6
- 2 Samuel 5:20
- 1 Kings 13:8
- 2 Kings 2:8
- 1 Chronicles 11:17
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
