יָם (yām) is
a Hebrew noun
meaning sea. It appears
396 times
in 35 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H3220).
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 871a)
Range of meaning (TWOT 871a)sea; large body of water, Mediterranean Sea, large river, artifical basin, west, south; western, westward
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
יָםnoun, masculine: sea
Strong's H3220יָם: a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south KJV:sea (× -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 871: ימםymm — Root of: יָם sea; יֵמִם hot springs