מְצוֹלָה metsolah
Hebrew word for “depth” · Strong’s H4688 · used 11 times in 11 verses
Meaning
depth, the deep, the deep sea
How it is translated
Glosses given for metsolah in context, with how often each is used:
- depths 6
- deep 4
- depth 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Psalms 69 (2), Exodus 15 (1), Nehemiah 9 (1), Job 41 (1), Psalms 68 (1), Psalms 88 (1), Psalms 107 (1), Jonah 2 (1), Micah 7 (1), Zechariah 10 (1)
Forms
- מצולה 4
- במצולת 2
- במצלות 2
- ממצלות 1
- במצולה 1
- מצולות 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with metsolah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- יָם yam “sea” 6
- שָׁלַךְ shalakh “to throw” 3
- שִׁבֹּלֶת shibbol “ear” 2
- שָׁטַף shataph “to overflow” 2
- גַּל gal “heap” 2
- עָבַר avar “to pass” 3
- מַי mayim “water” 3
- כְּמוֹ kemo “like” 2
- אֶבֶן even “stone” 2
- יָרַד yarad “to go down” 2
- שׁוּב shuv “to return” 2
Key verses
The verses using metsolah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Exodus 15:5 — The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
- Nehemiah 9:11 — And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps,…
- Job 41:31 — He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
- Psalms 68:22 — The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
- Psalms 69:2 — I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
- Psalms 69:15 — Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
- Psalms 88:6 — Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
- Psalms 107:24 — These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
- Jonah 2:3 — For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
- Micah 7:19 — He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
- Zechariah 10:11 — And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria…
See all 11 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.