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Psalms 115:16

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Masoretic Text 1524

H8064 The heaven השׁמים

H8064 even the heavens שׁמים

H3068 ליהוה

H776 are the LORD's but the earth והארץ

H5414 hath he given נתן

H1121 to the children לבני

H120 of men אדם׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

The

H8064 heaven

even

the

H8064 heavens

are

the

LORD's

but

the

H776 earth

hath

H5414 given

the

H1121 children

H120 men

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