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Meaning: water, juice, urine, semen. Word Origin: Derived from an unused root meaning to flow. Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: - G5204 (ὕδωρ, hydōr) - water. Usage: The Hebrew word "mayim" primarily refers to water in its various forms and uses.
5 maj 2014 · מים. The masculine plural noun מים (mayim) means water, but is often translated with a curiously plural "waters". Nouns that are really plural forms are quite common in Hebrew, and although they are a curious phenomenon, plural nouns are not foreign to English. Take the word "people", for instance. People is a plural word (people are ...
This pictograph has the meanings of liquid, water and sea, mighty and massive from the size of the sea and chaos from the storms of the sea. The Modern Hebrew name for this letter is mem probably from the word mayim meaning "water."
Source: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); Usage: piss, wasting, water (-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)). Greek Equivalent Words: Strong #: 1484 ‑ ἔθνος (eth'‑nos); 2250 ‑ ἡμέρα (hay‑mer'‑ah); 5204 ‑ ὕδωρ (); 5205 ‑ ὑετός (hoo‑et‑os'); 5202 ‑ ὑδροποτέω (hoo‑drop‑ot ...
meaning "water" in general.16 Simply understood, for example, shamayim in Hebrew or Aramaic and šamū in Akkadian could be seen as a term combining "of/one of which(" ša ) and "waters" ( mayim /mū).
For Orthodox Jews, an ingredient considered needful in the process of regaining purity is immersion in a mikvah, a pool of mayim chayim, "living (non-stagnant) waters." In the absence of a mikvah, the ocean, or a river or a flowing lake can serve for this purpose.
However, the text says (and we must always refer to the text) that there is ‘surface’ (or ‘face of the...’) and then uses an ancient Hebrew term for ‘waters’. This suggests structure of some kind, which would not be chaos and certainly not ‘nothing’.
