Lexical Summary tehom: deep, sea, abyss Original Word: תְּהוֹםTransliteration: 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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