oniya · ship

What it means

oniya (אֳנִיָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ship”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A large vessel that crosses the sea with cargo or soldiers.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• ships ×26
• ship ×4
• boats ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Chronicles×6
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×5
• Ezekiel×3
• Daniel×1
• Jonah×3

• Genesis 49:13

  Zebulun will dwell at the shore of the seas; he will be a shore for ships, and his border will be toward Sidon.

• Deuteronomy 28:68

  And YHWH will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, “You shall never see it again.” And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male slaves and female slaves, and there will be no buyer.

• Judges 5:17

  Gilead dwelt beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he reside as an alien by the ships? Asher sat at the shore of the seas, and by his inlets he dwelt.

• 1 Kings 9:27

  And Hiram sent in the ships his servants, men of ships, who knew the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

• 1 Kings 22:48

  Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold; but they did not go, for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.

• 1 Kings 22:49

  Then Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat was not willing.

• 2 Chronicles 8:18

  Huram sent him, by the hand of his servants, ships and servants who knew the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to King Solomon.

• 2 Chronicles 9:21

  For the king had ships going to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish would come carrying gold and silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

• 2 Chronicles 20:36

  He allied him with himself to make ships to go to Tarshish, and they made ships in Ezion-geber.

• 2 Chronicles 20:37

  Eliezer son of Dodavahu from Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you allied yourself with Ahaziah, YHWH has made a breach in your works.” And the ships were broken, and they were not able to go to Tarshish.

• Job 9:26

  They pass like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops on food.

• Psalms 48:7

  With an east wind you break the ships of Tarshish.

• Psalms 104:26

  There the ships go, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.

• Psalms 107:23

  Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business on many waters,

• Proverbs 30:19

  the way of the eagle in the heavens, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the heart of the sea, and the way of a man with a young woman.

• Proverbs 31:14

  She is like the ships of the merchant; from far away she brings her bread.

• Isaiah 2:16

  and against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the desirable images.

• Isaiah 23:1

  The burden of Tyre. Wail, ships of Tarshish, for it is devastated, without house, without entrance; from the land of Kittim it was revealed to them.

• Isaiah 23:14

  Wail, ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is devastated.

• Isaiah 43:14

  Thus says YHWH, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I have brought down as fugitives all of them, and the Chaldeans, in the ships of their shout of joy.

• Isaiah 60:9

  For the coastlands will wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish in the lead, to bring your sons from far away, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of YHWH your Elohim, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.

• Ezekiel 27:9

  The elders of Gebal and her wise men were in you, repairing your cracks; all the ships of the sea and their sailors were in you to carry on your exchange.

• Ezekiel 27:25

  The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your exchange; and you were filled and became very heavy in the heart of the seas.

• Ezekiel 27:29

  And they will come down from their ships, all who handle the oar, the sailors, all the pilots of the sea; on the land they will stand.

• Daniel 11:40

  And at the time of the end the king of the south will clash with him, and the king of the north will storm against him with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships; and he will enter into the lands and overflow and pass through.

• Jonah 1:3

  But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of YHWH. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish; he paid its fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, from the presence of YHWH.

• Jonah 1:4

  But YHWH hurled a great wind on the sea, and there was a great storm on the sea, and the ship was about to break up.

• Jonah 1:5

  And the sailors were afraid, and they cried out, each to his god, and they hurled the objects that were in the ship into the sea to lighten the load for themselves. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the vessel and had lain down and was sound asleep.

And 3 more times.