Lexical Definition

‎שָׁמַיִן‎ shâmayin (shaw-mah'-yin) heaven ^A:N-M
(Aramaic) corresponding to ‎שָׁמַיִם‎

heaven.

• {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
1a) visible sky
1b) Heaven (as abode of God)

Extended Information

Aramaic of: שָׁמַיִם

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎שְׁמַ֫יִן‎] noun masculine plural heavens (Biblical Hebrew [‎שָׁמַי‎], ‎שָׁמַיִם‎, √ ‎שׁמה‎); — always emphatic ‎שְׁמַיָּא‎:

1. visible sky Jer 10:11; Dan 4:8*; Dan 4:10*; Dan 4:17*; Dan 4:19*; Dan 4:20*; Dan 4:27*; Dan 4:28* ‎׳‎‎עוֺף שׁ‎ Dan 2:38 ‎׳‎‎צִפֲּרֵי שׁ‎ Dan 4:9*; Dan 4:18* ‎׳‎‎טַל שׁ‎ v.Dan 4:12* v.Dan 4:20* v.Dan 4:22* v.Dan 4:30*; Dan 5:21 ‎׳‎‎רוּחֵי שׁ‎ Dan 7:2 winds of the sky; ‎׳‎‎עֲנָנֵי שׁ‎ vDan 7:13 heavens + earth = universe Jer 10:11, where God shews signs Dan 6:28*.

2.heavens as abode of God Dan 2:28; Dan 4:31*, hence, figurative, as ruling v.Dan 4:23* (‎׳‎‎שׁ‎ sometimes = God in Late Hebrew, J, Aramaic, D^{Worte Jesu 179; Eng.Tr.218 f.}); as abode of angels v.Dan 4:32* (Dr); elsewhere in phrase ‎׳‎‎אֱלָהּ שׁ‎ Dan 2:18; Dan 2:19; Dan 2:37; Dan 2:44; Ezra 5:11; Ezra 5:12; Ezra 6:9; Ezra 6:10; Ezra 7:12; Ezra 7:21; Ezra 7:23 (twice in verse), ‎׳‎‎מֶלֶךְ שׁ‎ Dan 4:34*, ‎׳‎‎מָרֵא שׁ‎ Dan 5:23.

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