ma.yim denotes water, whether drawn for drinking, contained in springs and rivers, or used in actions such as pouring and washing.

The supplied verses use the term for water in varied physical settings: as drink and provision, as water drawn or poured, and as the water of springs, pools, wadis, rivers, and the sea. The same term also occurs where water is divided, healed, filled into a wadi, or invoked in a comparison, without the evidence requiring separate lexical meanings.

1. Physical water in drinking, supply, and natural settings · dominant

   The absolute plural form occurs for water requested or given to drink in 1 Chronicles 11:17 and 1 Kings 17:10, while 1 Kings 18:34 places it in jars poured over an offering. In 2 Kings 3:17 the APB renders the clause about a wadi being filled with water for people and livestock to drink; in Amos 5:8 it renders waters of the sea poured upon the land. These settings show one broad physical referent rather than distinct lexical senses.

   1 Chronicles 11:171 Kings 17:101 Kings 18:342 Kings 3:172 Kings 3:20Amos 5:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB usually presents the term as “water” or “waters,” including water for drinking, water in jars or a conduit, and the waters of springs, rivers, and the sea. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these English forms confirm the scenes without establishing finer distinctions.