Strong's H8064 · Hebrew
shamayim
shaw-mah'-yim
dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}; 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)
Scholarly Lexicons
Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
H8064
H8064 שָׁמַי only pl. שָׁמַיִם heavens , sky . . visible heavens , sky , where stars, etc., are . phrases . . as abode of God . Elijah taken up הַשּׁ׳ in whirlwind . הַשּׁ׳ personified in various relations
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain
