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Lexicon :: Strong's H8415 - tᵊhôm

Aa
תְּהוֹם
Transliteration
tᵊhôm
Pronunciation
teh-home'
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2495a

Strong’s Definitions

תְּהוֹם tᵉhôwm, teh-home'; or תְּהֹם tᵉhôm; (usually feminine) from H1949; an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean watersupply):—deep (place), depth.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x

The KJV translates Strong's H8415 in the following manner: deep (20x), depth (15x), deep places (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x
The KJV translates Strong's H8415 in the following manner: deep (20x), depth (15x), deep places (1x).

  1. deep, depths, deep places, abyss, the deep, sea

    1. deep (of subterranean waters)

    2. deep, sea, abysses (of sea)

    3. primeval ocean, deep

    4. deep, depth (of river)

    5. abyss, the grave

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
תְּהוֹם tᵉhôwm, teh-home'; or תְּהֹם tᵉhôm; (usually feminine) from H1949; an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean watersupply):—deep (place), depth.
STRONGS H8415: Abbreviations
† תִּהוֺם noun feminineGenesis 7:11 + 7 times and masculineJob 28:14 + 5 times (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 + Psalm 106:9 (only here with article); construct תְּהוֺמוֺת Isa 71:20 (but see 5 below); —
1. deep, of subterranean waters, Genesis 49:25 (poem in J; opposed to שָׁמַיִם), Deuteronomy 33:13 (opposed to id.); רַבָּה מַעְיְנוֺת ת׳ Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:2 (P; || אֲרֻבֹּת הַשָּׁמַיִם), עִינוֺת ת׳ Proverbs 8:28 (|| שְׁחָקִים), Job 28:14; Job 38:16 (both || יָם); תְּהוֺם רַבָּה Amos 7:4 (probably), רַבָּה ת'מִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ Psalm 36:7 (opposed to אֵל צִדְקָֽתְךָ כְּהַרְרֵי), Isaiah 51:10 (perhaps); so plural תְּהֹמוֺת, Proverbs 8:24 (|| מַעְיָנוֺת), Proverbs 3:20 (opposed to שְׁחָקִים), and probably Psalm 33:7 (|| מֵי הַיָּם), Psalm 135:6 (+ יַמִּים).
2. (deep) sea, overwhelming Tyre Ezekiel 26:19 (|| הַמַּיִם הָרַבִּים), roaring at theoph. Habakkuk 3:10; in general, || יָם, Job 38:30 (ת'פְּנֵי); || מַיִם Jonah 2:6; alone Job 41:24; figurative, קוֺרַא אֶלתֿ׳ ת׳ Job 42:8 (|| מִשְׁבָּרִים, גַּלִּים; 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; Psalm 77:17; also Psalm 78:15 (in simile), Psalm 107:26 (poetic of hollows of great waves, opposed to שָׁמַיִם); vaguely, כָּלתְּֿהֹמוֺת Psalm 135:6; Psalm 148:7.
3. primaeval ocean, deep, in Hebrew cosmogony, ת'פְּנֵי Genesis 1:2 (P; || הַמַּיִם פְּנֵי), 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), Ezekiel 31:15 (|| id.); plural of bursts of water fertilizing Canaan, יוצאים בבקעה ובהר Deuteronomy 8:7 (+ עֲיָנֹת, נַחֲלֵי מַיִם). — On Psalm 42:8 see 2.
5. abyss (si vera lectio): תְּהוֺמוֺת הָאָרֶץ = She'ôl, Psalm 71:20, but Ol We תַּחְתִיּוֺת.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:2; 1:2; 7:11; 7:11; 8:2; 49:25

Exodus

15:5; 15:8

Deuteronomy

8:7; 33:13

Job

28:14; 28:14; 38:16; 38:30; 41:24; 42:8

Psalms

33:7; 36:7; 42:8; 71:20; 77:17; 77:17; 78:15; 104:6; 106:9; 106:9; 107:26; 135:6; 135:6; 148:7

Proverbs

3:20; 8:24; 8:27; 8:28

Isaiah

51:10; 63:13; 63:13

Ezekiel

26:19; 31:4; 31:15

Amos

7:4

Jonah

2:6

Habakkuk

3:10

H8415

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8415 matches the Hebrew תְּהוֹם (tᵊhôm),
which occurs 36 times in 35 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2 - And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:2 - And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25 - Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:5 - They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8 - By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:7 - For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:13 - And of Joseph he said, Let the blessing of the Lord be on his land; for the good things of heaven on high, and the deep waters flowing under the earth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:14 - The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:16 - Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:30 - The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:32 - After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:7 - He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:6 - Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:7 - Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:20 - You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:16 - The waters saw you, O God; the waters saw you, they were in fear: even the deep was troubled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15 - The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:6 - Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9 - By his word the Red Sea was made dry: and he took them through the deep waters as through the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:26 - The sailors go up to heaven, and down into the deep; their souls are wasted because of their trouble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:6 - The Lord has done whatever was pleasing to him, in heaven, and on the earth, in the seas and in all the deep waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:7 - Give praise to the Lord from the earth, you great sea-beasts, and deep places:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:20 - By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:24 - When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:27 - When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:28 - When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10 - Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:13 - He who made them go through the deep waters, like a horse in the waste land?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 - For this is what the Lord has said: I will make you a waste town, like the towns which are unpeopled; when I make the deep come upon you, covering you with great waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4 - It got strength from the waters and the deep made it tall: its streams went round about its planted land and it sent out its waterways to all the trees of the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15 - This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes down to the underworld, I will make the deep full of grief for him; I will keep back her streams and the great waters will be stopped: I will make Lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of the field will be feeble because of him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:4 - This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:5 - The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:10 - The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place.
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