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Strong's #4325: mayim (pronounced mah'-yim)

dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen:--+ piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mayim

1) water, waters

1a) water

1b) water of the feet, urine

1c) of danger, violence, transitory things, refreshment (figuratively)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)



Usage:

This word is used 581 times:

Proverbs 5:15: "Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well."
Proverbs 5:16: "be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets."
Proverbs 8:24: "when there were no fountains abounding with water."
Proverbs 8:29: "When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed"
Proverbs 9:17: "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant."
Proverbs 17:14: "The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with."
Proverbs 18:4: "of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook."
Proverbs 20:5: "in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out."
Proverbs 21:1: "is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever"
Proverbs 25:21: "to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:"
Proverbs 25:25: "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country."
Proverbs 27:19: " As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man."
Proverbs 30:4: "in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all"
Proverbs 30:16: "the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough."
Ecclesiastes 2:6: "I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:"
Ecclesiastes 11:1: "Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many"
Song of Solomon 4:15: "of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon."
Song of Solomon 5:12: "are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set."
Song of Solomon 8:7: "Many waters cannot quench love, neither"
Isaiah 1:22: "dross, thy wine mixed with water:"
Isaiah 1:30: "and as a garden that hath no water."
Isaiah 3:1: "the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,"
Isaiah 8:6: "as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly,"
Isaiah 8:7: "bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even"
Isaiah 11:9: "of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea."
Isaiah 12:3: "Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation."
Isaiah 14:23: "it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, saith"
Isaiah 15:6: "For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away,"
Isaiah 15:9: "For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more"
Isaiah 17:12: "that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!"
Isaiah 17:13: "shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off,"
Isaiah 18:2: "even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers,"
Isaiah 19:5: " And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up."
Isaiah 19:8: "and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish."
Isaiah 21:14: "of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled."
Isaiah 22:9: "they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool."
Isaiah 22:11: "also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked"
Isaiah 23:3: "And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is"
Isaiah 28:2: "storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand."
Isaiah 28:17: "shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place."
Isaiah 30:14: "fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit."
Isaiah 30:20: "give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner"
Isaiah 30:25: "hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers"
Isaiah 32:2: "and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock"
Isaiah 32:20: "are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass."
Isaiah 33:16: "of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure."
Isaiah 35:6: "sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert."
Isaiah 35:7: "a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass"
Isaiah 36:12: "their own dung, and drink their own piss with"
Isaiah 36:16: "of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;"









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