תִּהוֺם noun feminineGen 7:11 + 7 t. and masculineJob 28:14 + 5 t. (AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 62 Köii. 2. 167 Ency. Bib.DEEP) deep, sea, abyss (almost always in poetry); — absolute ׳ת Gen 1:2 +; plural absolute תְּהֹמוֺת Ps 77:17 +, etc., ׳בַּתּ Isa 63:13 + Isa 106:9 (only here with article); construct תְּהוֺמוֺת Isa 71:20 (but see 5 infra); —
1. deep, of subterranean waters,
Gen 49:25 (poem in J; opposed to
שָׁמַיִם),
Deut 33:13 (opposed to
id.);
׳רַבָּה מַעְיְנוֺת ת Gen 7:11;
Gen 8:2 (P; ||
אֲרֻבֹּת הַשָּׁמַיִם),
׳עִינוֺת ת Prov 8:28 (||
שְׁחָקִים),
Job 28:14;
Job 38:16 (both ||
יָם);
תְּהוֺם רַבָּה Amos 7:4 (probably),
רַבָּה ׳מִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ ת Ps 36:7 (opposed to
אֵל צִדְקָֽתְךָ כְּהַרְרֵי),
Isa 51:10 (perhaps); so plural
תְּהֹמוֺת,
Prov 8:24 (||
מַעְיָנוֺת),
Prov 3:20 (opposed to
שְׁחָקִים), and probably
Ps 33:7 (||
מֵי הַיָּם),
Ps 135:6 ( +
יַמִּים).
2. (deep)
sea, overwhelming Tyre
Ezek 26:19 (||
הַמַּיִם הָרַבִּים), roaring at theoph.
Hab 3:10 in general, ||
יָם,
Job 38:30 (
׳פְּנֵי ת); ||
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,
Exod 15:5;
Exod 15:8 (of Red Sea, so)
Isa 63:13 ||
Ps 106:9;
Ps 77:17 also
Ps 78:15 (in simile),
Ps 107:26 (poetic of hollows of great waves, opposed to
שָׁמַיִם); vaguely,
כָּלתְּֿהֹמוֺת Ps 135:6;
Ps 148:7.
3. primaeval ocean, deep, in Hebrew cosmogony,
׳פְּנֵי ת Gen 1:2 (P; ||
פְּנֵי הַמַּיִם),
Prov 8:27 (||
שָׁמַיִם),
Ps 104:6. — (compare, further, Gunk
Schöpfung u. Chaos 21 ff. OCWhitehouse
Hast. DB COSMOGONY Zim
KAT3. 492 f., 509 f., 585).
4. deep, depth, of river
Ezek 31:4 (Nile; ||
מַיִם, +
נַהֲרוֺתֶיהָ), v
Ezek 31:15 (||
id.); plural of
bursts of water fertilizing Canaan,
יוצאים בבקעה ובהר Deut 8:7 ( +
עֲיָנֹת,
נַחֲלֵי מַיִם). — On
Ps 42:8 see
2. 5. abyss (si vera lectio):
תְּהוֺמוֺת הָאָרֶץ =
Shejôl,
Ps 71:20, but Ol We
תַּחְתִיּוֺת.
[תַּחְפֻּכָה] see הפך. תָּו see תוה. below,
תּוֺא see תְּאוֺ. [תּוֺאָם] see תאם.