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Lexicon :: Strong's H8415 - tᵊhôm

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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 - But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the [fn]flood-gates of heaven were opened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:2 - And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the flood-gates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25 - and my God helped thee, and he blessed thee with the blessing of heaven from above, and the blessing of the earth possessing all things, because of the blessing of the breasts and of the womb,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:5 - He covered them with the sea: they sank to the depth like a stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8 - And by the breath of thine anger the water parted asunder; the waters were congealed as a wall, the waves were congealed in the midst of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:7 - For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good and extensive land, where there are torrents of waters, and fountains [fn]of deep places issuing through the plains and through the mountains:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:13 - And to Joseph he said, His land is of the blessing of the Lord, of the seasons of sky and dew, and of the deeps of wells below,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:14 - The depth said, It is not in me: and the sea said, It is not with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:16 - Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:30 - which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:32 - (LXX 41:24) and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as his range.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:7 - (LXX 32:7) Who gathers the waters of the sea as in a bottle; who lays up the deeps in treasuries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:6 - (LXX 35:7) Thy righteousness is as the [fn]mountains of God, thy judgments are as a great deep: O Lord, thou wilt preserve men and beasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:7 - (LXX 41:8) Deep calls to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy billows and thy waves have gone over me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:20 - (LXX 70:20) What afflictions many and sore hast thou shewed me! yet thou didst turn and quicken me, and broughtest me again from the depths of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:16 - (LXX 76:17) The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee, and feared; and the depths were troubled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15 - (LXX 77:15) He clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:6 - (LXX 103:6) The deep, as it were a garment, is his covering: the waters shall stand [fn]on the hills.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9 - (LXX 105:9) And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep as through the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:26 - (LXX 106:26) They go up to the heavens, and go down to the depths; their soul melts because of troubles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:6 - (LXX 134:6) all that the Lord willed, he did in heaven, and on the earth, in the sea, and in all deeps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:7 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye serpents, and all deeps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:20 - By understanding were the depths broken up, and the clouds dropped water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:24 - even before he made the depths; before the fountains of water came forth:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:27 - When he prepared the heaven, I was present with him; and when he [fn]prepared his throne upon the winds:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:28 - and when he strengthened the clouds above; and when he secured the fountains of the earth:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10 - Art thou not it that dried the sea, the water, even the abundance of the deep; that made the depths of the sea a way of passage for the delivered and redeemed?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:13 - He led them through the deep, as a horse through the wilderness, and they fainted not,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 - For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make the city desolate, as the cities that shall not be inhabited, when I have brought the deep up upon thee,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4 - The water nourished him, the depth made him grow tall; she led her rivers round about his plants, and she sent forth her streams to all the trees of the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15 - Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein he went down to Hades, the deep mourned for him: and I stayed her floods, and restrained her abundance of water: and Libanus saddened for him, all the trees of the field fainted for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:4 - Thus has the Lord shewed me; and, behold, the Lord called for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and devoured the Lord's portion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:5 - (LXX 2:6) Water was poured around me to the soul: the [fn]lowest deep compassed me, my head went down

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:10 - The nations shall see thee and be in pain, as thou dost divide the moving waters: the deep uttered her voice, and raised her form on high.
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