The corpus record — Hebrew

שְׁמַיָּ֥א

shamayin · n.m.pl

heavens

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Distribution

Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 38 · 1.24/10k

Senses

1. שָׁמַ֫יִן

heavens

2. שָׁמַיִן

{the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)}

Attestations

שְׁמַיָּ֥/א Jeremiah 10:11 (BHS)
שְׁמַיָּ֖/א Jeremiah 10:11 (BHS)
שְׁמַיָּ֔/א Daniel 2:18 (BHS)
שְׁמַיָּֽ/א Daniel 2:19 (BHS)
בִּ/שְׁמַיָּ/א֙ Daniel 2:28 (BHS)
שְׁמַיָּ֔/א Daniel 2:37 (BHS)

6 of 38 attestations shown.

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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.