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Word Summary
tehom: deep, sea, abyss
Original Word: תְּהוֹם
Transliteration: tehom
Phonetic Spelling: (teh-home')
Part of Speech: Noun
Short Definition: deep, sea, abyss
Meaning: an abyss, the deep
Strong's Concordance
confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, vain, vanity, waste,

From an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. Desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain -- confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8415. tehom

תִּהוֺם‎ noun feminineGenesis 7:11 7t.

and masculineJob 28:14 5t. (AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 62 Köii. 2. 167 Ency. Bib.DEEP) deep, sea, abyss (almost always in poetry); — absolute ׳ת‎ Genesis 1:2 +; plural absolute תְּהֹמוֺת‎ Psalm 77:17 +, etc., ׳בַּתּ‎ Isaiah 63:13 + Isa 106:9 (only here with article); construct תְּהוֺמוֺת‎ Isa 71:20 (but see 5 infra); —

1 deep, of subterranean waters, Genesis 49:25 (poem in J; opposed to שָׁמַיִם‎), Deuteronomy 33:13 (opposed to id.); ת מַעְיְנוֺת ׳רַבָּה‎ Genesis 7:11; 8:2 (P; "" הַשָּׁמַיִם אֲרֻבֹּת‎), ת ׳עִינוֺת‎ Proverbs 8:28 ("" שְׁחָקִים‎), Job 28:14; 38:16 (both "" יָם‎); רַבָּה תְּהוֺם‎ Amos 7:4 (probably), ת ׳מִשְׁמָּטֶיךָ רַבָּה‎ Psalm 36:7 (opposed to כְּהַרְרֵי צִדְקָֽתְךָ אֵל‎), Isaiah 51:10 (perhaps); so plural תְּהֹמוֺת‎, Proverbs 8:24 ("" מַעְיָנוֺת‎), 3:20 (opposed to שְׁחָקִים‎), and probably Psalm 33:7 ("" הַיָּם מֵי‎), 135:6 ( + יַמִּים‎).

2 (deep) sea, overwhelming Tyre Ezekiel 26:19 ("" הָרַבִּים הַמַּיִם‎), roaring at theoph. Habakkuk 3:10; in General, "" יָם‎, Job 38:30 (ת ׳מְּנֵי‎); "" מַיִם‎ Jonah 2:6; alonE Job 41:24; figurative, ׳ת ׳אֶלתֿ קוֺרַא‎ 42:8 ("" גַּלִּים מִשְׁבָּרִים,‎; but possibly here of Jordan, compare

4); in plural = abysses of sea, Exodus 15:5, 8 (of Red Sea, so) Isaiah 63:13 "" Psalm 106:9; 77:17; also 78:15 (in simile), 107:26 (poetic of hollows of great waves, opposed to שָׁמַיִם‎); vaguely, כָּלתְּֿהֹמוֺת‎ 135:6; 148:7.

3 primaeval ocean, deep, in Hebrew cosmogony, ת ׳מְּנֵי‎ Genesis 1:2 (P; "" הַמַּיִם מְּנֵי‎), Proverbs 8:27 ("" שָׁמַיִם‎), Psalm 104:6. — (compare, further, GunkSchöpfung u. Chaos 21 ff. OCWhitehouseHast. DB COSMOGONY ZimKAT3. 492 f., 509 f., 585).

4 deep, depth, of river Ezekiel 31:4 (Nile; "" מַיִם‎, + נַהֲרוֺתֶיהָ‎), 31:15 ("" id.); plural of bursts of water fertilizing Canaan, ובהר בבקעה יוצאים‎ Deuteronomy 8:7 ( + מַיִם נַחֲלֵי עֲיָנֹת,‎). — On Psalm 42:8 see

2. 5. abyss (si vera lectio): הָאָרֶץ תְּהוֺמוֺת‎ = Shejôl, Psalm 71:20, but Ol We תַּחְתִיּוֺת‎.

[תַּחְמֻּכָה‎] see הפך‎. תָּו‎ see תוה‎. below,

תּוֺא‎ see תְּאוֺ‎. [תּוֺאָם‎] see תאם‎.





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