תְּהוֹםtᵉhôwm
deep, sea, abyss
Pronunciation: teh-home' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8415
Meanings
1. deep, of subterranean waters (Genesis 49:25; Deuteronomy 33:13; Genesis 7:11)
2. (deep) sea (Ezekiel 26:19; Habakkuk 3:10; Job 38:30)
3. primaeval ocean, deep (Genesis 1:2; Proverbs 8:27; Psalms 104:6)
4. deep, depth (Ezekiel 31:4; Ezekiel 31:15; Deuteronomy 8:7)
5. abyss (Psalms 71:20)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 36 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:2 The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
- Genesis 7:11 When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.
- Genesis 8:2 The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped.
- Genesis 49:25 May the God of your father help you; may the Almighty bless you with the blessings of the heavens above, and blessings of the watery depths below, and blessings of the breasts and womb.
- Exodus 15:5 The deep waters gushed over them; they sank to the bottom like a stone.
- Exodus 15:8 At the blast of your breath, the waters piled up! The surging waters stood straight like a wall; in the heart of the sea the deep waters became hard.
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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).