יָם
yam (yawm) n-m.
1. a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water
2. specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea
3. sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin
4. locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
[from an unused root meaning to roar]
KJV: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).