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Strongs H8064

H8064

שָׁמַיִם (shâmayim) n-m (shaw-mah'-yim)
Source: dual of an unused singular שָׁמֶה; from an unused root meaning to be lofty;
Meaning: 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)
KJV: air, × astrologer, heaven(-s).

Brown, Driver, Briggs lexicon entry

[שָׁמַי] n.m. only pl. שָׁמַיִם 421 heavens, skyvisible heavens, sky, where stars, etc., arephrasesas abode of GodElijah taken up הַשּׁ׳ in whirlwindהַשּׁ׳ personified in various relations {1029}

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