מְצוֹלָהmᵉtsôwlâh
depth, deep, singular = the deep sea, deep (Job 41:23; Exodus 15:5; Nehemiah 9:11; Psalms 88:7; Zechariah 10:11)
Pronunciation: mets-o-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4688
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 15:5 The deep waters gushed over them; they sank to the bottom like a stone.
- Nehemiah 9:11 You divided the sea for your people so they could walk through on dry land! And then you hurled their enemies into the depths of the sea. They sank like stones beneath the mighty waters.
- Job 41:31 “Leviathan makes the water boil with its commotion. It stirs the depths like a pot of ointment.
- Psalms 68:22 The Lord says, “I will bring my enemies down from Bashan; I will bring them up from the depths of the sea.
- Psalms 69:2 Deeper and deeper I sink into the mire; I can’t find a foothold. I am in deep water, and the floods overwhelm me.
- Psalms 69:15 Don’t let the floods overwhelm me, or the deep waters swallow me, or the pit of death devour me.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).