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Nehemiah 2:4

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Masoretic Text 1524

H559 said ויאמר

H4428 Then the king לי המלך

H5921 unto me For על

H4100 what מה

H2088 זה

H859 dost thou אתה

H1245 make request מבקשׁ

H6419 So I prayed ואתפלל

H413 to אל

H430 the God אלהי

H8064 of heaven השׁמים׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

Then

the

H4428 king

H559 said

unto

H5921 For

H4100 what

dost

H859 thou

make

H1245 request

H6419 prayed

H413 to

the

H430 God

H8064 heaven

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H8064

Hebrew: שָׁמַיִם

Transliteration: shâmayim

Pronunciation: shaw-mah'-yim

Part of Speech: Noun Masculine

Bible Usage: {air} X-(idiom) {astrologer} heaven (-s).

Definition:

from an unused root meaning to be lofty; 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)

1. heaven, heavens, sky

a. visible heavens, sky

1. as abode of the stars

2. as the visible universe, the sky, atmosphere, etc

b. Heaven (as the abode of God)

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906