o.niy.yah denotes sea-going vessels, whether carrying people or goods, traveling, being built, or facing wreckage.

The term denotes maritime vessels across settings of construction, travel, trade, seafaring labor, and disaster. The same noun is also used in comparisons and descriptions of vessels associated with coastal places and sea routes.

1. Maritime vessels in travel, trade, and seafaring · dominant

   The plural noun identifies vessels built for a destination in 2 Chronicles 20:36, vessels wrecked before making that voyage in 2 Chronicles 20:37, and vessels carrying cargo in 2 Chronicles 9:21. In Ezekiel 27:29, the vessels are the ones from which oar-handlers, mariners, and pilots go down; the singular absolute form in Jonah 1:3 names the vessel Jonah finds for travel.

   2 Chronicles 20:362 Chronicles 20:372 Chronicles 9:21Ezekiel 27:29Jonah 1:3Psalm 107:23

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the noun with “ships” in plural sea-travel and cargo clauses, while Jonah 1:3 uses singular “ship.” These English forms confirm the verse settings rather than establish separate meanings.