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Genesis 28:12

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Masoretic Text 1524

H2492 And he dreamed ויחלם

H2009 and behold והנה

H5551 a ladder סלם

H5324 set up מצב

H776 on the earth ארצה

H7218 and the top וראשׁו

H5060 of it reached מגיע

H8064 to heaven השׁמימה

H2009 and behold והנה

H4397 the angels מלאכי

H430 of God אלהים

H5927 ascending עלים

H3381 and descending וירדים׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

And

H2492 dreamed

and

H2009 behold

H5551 ladder

set

H5324 up

the

H776 earth

and

the

H7218 top

H5060 reached

H8064 heaven

and

H2009 behold

the

H4397 angels

H430 God

H5927 ascending

and

H3381 descending

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:

BDB Strongs

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

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.