שָׁמַ֫יִן
heaven
also: heavens, sky fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Every verse where H8065 appears — 35 distinct verses across 3 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.
Ezra 7 verses
- Ezra 5:11 שְׁמַיָּ֜/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art Thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.
- Ezra 5:12 שְׁמַיָּ֔/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
- Ezra 6:9 שְׁמַיָּ֟/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art That which they have need of, both young bulls, and rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; [also] wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;
- Ezra 6:10 שְׁמַיָּ֑/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savor to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
- Ezra 7:12 שְׁמַיָּ֛/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect and so forth.
- Ezra 7:21 שְׁמַיָּ֔/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done with all diligence,
- Ezra 7:23 שְׁמַיָּ֔/א שְׁמַיָּ֑/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art n c mp det + ptcl def.art Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
Jeremiah 1 verse
Daniel 27 verses
- Daniel 2:18 שְׁמַיָּ֔/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should nor perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 2:19 שְׁמַיָּֽ/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
- Daniel 2:28 בִּ/שְׁמַיָּ/א֙ prep + n c mp det + ptcl def.art but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:
- Daniel 2:37 שְׁמַיָּ֔/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;
- Daniel 2:38 שְׁמַיָּ/א֙ n c mp det + ptcl def.art and wherever the children of men dwell, the animals of the field and the birds of the sky has he given into your hand, and has made you to rule over them all: you are the head of gold.
- Daniel 2:44 שְׁמַיָּ֤/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty of it be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
- Daniel 4:11 לִ/שְׁמַיָּ֔/א prep + n c mp det + ptcl def.art The tree grew, and was strong, and the height of it reached to the sky, and the sight of it to the end of all the earth.
- Daniel 4:12 שְׁמַיָּ֔/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art The leaves of it were beautiful, and the fruit of it much, and in it was food for all: the animals of the field had shadow under it, and the birds of the sky lived in the branches of it, and all flesh was fed from it.
- Daniel 4:13 שְׁמַיָּ֖/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and, behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky.
- Daniel 4:15 שְׁמַיָּ/א֙ n c mp det + ptcl def.art Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth:
- Daniel 4:20 לִ/שְׁמַיָּ֔/א prep + n c mp det + ptcl def.art The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and the sight of it to all the earth;
- Daniel 4:21 שְׁמַיָּֽ/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art whose leaves were beautiful, and the fruit of it much, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation:
- Daniel 4:22 לִ/שְׁמַיָּ֔/א prep + n c mp det + ptcl def.art it is you, O king, that are grown and become strong; for your greatness is grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.
- Daniel 4:23 שְׁמַיָּ֡/א שְׁמַיָּ֣/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art n c mp det + ptcl def.art Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, Hew down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of the roots of it in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him;
- Daniel 4:25 שְׁמַיָּ/א֙ n c mp det + ptcl def.art that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and you shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whoever he will.
- Daniel 4:26 שְׁמַיָּֽ/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.
- Daniel 4:31 שְׁמַיָּ֣/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from the sky, [saying], O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from you:
- Daniel 4:33 שְׁמַיָּ֖/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art The same hour was the thing fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair was grown like eagles' [feathers], and his nails like birds' [claws].
- Daniel 4:34 לִ/שְׁמַיָּ֣/א prep + n c mp det + ptcl def.art At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
- Daniel 4:35 שְׁמַיָּ֔/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or tell him, What do you?
- Daniel 4:37 שְׁמַיָּ֔/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
- Daniel 5:21 שְׁמַיָּ֖/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals', and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whoever he will.
- Daniel 5:23 שְׁמַיָּ֣/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
- Daniel 6:27 בִּ/שְׁמַיָּ֖/א prep + n c mp det + ptcl def.art He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
- Daniel 7:2 שְׁמַיָּ֔/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea.
- Daniel 7:13 שְׁמַיָּ֔/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
- Daniel 7:27 שְׁמַיָּ֔/א n c mp det + ptcl def.art The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole the sky, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
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.
שמין (shâmayin) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “heaven.” Daniel dominates its distribution — 27 of 35 verses. Spanning 35 verses in 3 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in Ezra 5:11. Ranging over 3 senses, its meaning includes “heavens” and “sky”. 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 H8065 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 →
- 35
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 35 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #947
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 947 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 35 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 35 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 34 verses · 97%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 3%
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: Heaven 35×, Heavens 3×
- American Standard Version: Heaven 32×, Heavens 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Heaven 28×, Air 3×, Heavens 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Heaven 32×, Heavens 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8065 across 38 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8065 across 38 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8065 across 37 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8065 across 39 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- heaven, heavens, sky
- visible sky
- Heaven (as abode of God)
Word origin
Derived from שמים (shâmayim) (H8064) — heaven.
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.
שָׁמִין I
- (v. שְׁמִינִי) Shamin, a coin, one eighth of an Italian Isar (As). Kidd. 12ᵃ שתי פרוטות לש׳ the Shamin has two P’ruṭahs; Tosef. B. Bath. V, 12 לשמן ed. Zuck. (Var. לשווין, corr. acc.); Y. Kidd. I, 58ᵈ שני פרוטות שמין.—Pl. שְׁמֹנִין. Kidd. l. c. שני ש׳ להנץ two Shamins make one Hannets (v. הַנֵּץ); Tosef. l. c.; Y. Kidd. l. c. שני שמין ניצים (corr. acc.).
שָׁמִין
- = h. שָׁמֵן, fat. Targ. Y. Gen. XVIII, 8. Ib. 7; v. שְׁמַן.
שְׁמֹנִין
- , pl. of שָׁמִין I.
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 16 distinct written forms H8065 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.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁמַיָּ֔/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 2:18 | 11 |
| שְׁמַיָּ֖/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 4:13 | 4 |
| לִ/שְׁמַיָּ֔/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 4:11 | 3 |
| שְׁמַיָּ/א֙ | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 2:38 | 3 |
| שְׁמַיָּ֣/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 4:23 | 3 |
| שְׁמַיָּֽ/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 2:19 | 3 |
| שְׁמַיָּ֑/א | Particle, Definite Article | Ezra 6:10 | 2 |
| בִּ/שְׁמַיָּ/א֙ | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 2:28 | 1 |
| בִּ/שְׁמַיָּ֖/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 6:27 | 1 |
| לִ/שְׁמַיָּ֣/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 4:34 | 1 |
| שְׁמַיָּ֛/א | Particle, Definite Article | Ezra 7:12 | 1 |
| שְׁמַיָּ֜/א | Particle, Definite Article | Ezra 5:11 | 1 |
| שְׁמַיָּ֟/א | Particle, Definite Article | Ezra 6:9 | 1 |
| שְׁמַיָּ֡/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 4:23 | 1 |
| שְׁמַיָּ֤/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 2:44 | 1 |
| שְׁמַיָּ֥/א | Particle, Definite Article | Jeremiah 10:11 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 28 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 35 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
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.
