תְּהוֹם tehom

Hebrew word for “abyss” · Strong’s H8415 · used 36 times in 35 verses

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Meaning

1) deep, depths, deep places, abyss, the deep, sea;

How it is translated

Glosses given for tehom in context, with how often each is used:

• deep 22
• deeps 11
• depths 2
• like deeps 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Proverbs 8 (3), Exodus 15 (2), Job 38 (2), Ezekiel 31 (2), Genesis 1 (1), Genesis 7 (1), Genesis 8 (1), Genesis 49 (1), Deuteronomy 8 (1), Deuteronomy 33 (1)

Forms

• תהום 21
• תהומות 4
• תהמות 3
• תהמת 2
• בתהמות 2
• ותהמת 1
• ומתהום 1
• ומתהמות 1
• כתהמות 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with tehom more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מַי mayim “water” 14
• רַב rav “many” 8
• יָם yam “sea” 7
• שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 7
• מַעְיָן mayan “spring” 3
• כָּסָה kasah “to cover” 4
• חָרֵב charev “to destroy” 3
• בָּקַע baqa “to break up/open” 3
• חוּל chul “to twist” 3
• נֵד ned “heap” 2
• אֲרֻבָּה arubbah “window” 2
• כָּלָא kala “to restrain” 2

Key verses

The verses using tehom that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 7:11 — In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken…
• Genesis 49:25 — Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth…
• Deuteronomy 8:7 — For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
• Deuteronomy 33:13 — And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,
• Psalms 33:7 — He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
• Psalms 36:6 — Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
• Psalms 42:7 — Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
• Psalms 71:20 — Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
• Psalms 78:15 — He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
• Psalms 106:9 — He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
• Amos 7:4 — Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
• Habakkuk 3:10 — The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.

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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.