Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4688
מְצוֹלָה
metsolahmets-o-law'
depth
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉtsôwlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4688is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4688
a deep place (of water or mud)
The King James renders it: bottom, deep, depth.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
metsolah is rendered "depth". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Five of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 15:5The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.
Exodus 15:5בִמְצוֹלֹ֖ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- deep3
- in depths3
- depth1
- depths of1
- from depths of1
- in deep1
- in depths of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מְצוּלָ֑ה2
- בִּמְצוּלָֽה׃1
- בִמְצוֹלֹ֖ת1
- בִמְצוֹלֹ֛ת1
- בִּמְצֻל֥וֹת1
- בִּמְצֹלֽוֹת׃1
- מִֽמְּצֻל֥וֹת1
- מְ֭צוּלָה1
- מְצוּלָה֙1
- מְצוּל֣וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular4HNcfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine plural3HR/Ncfpa
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncfpc
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
Exodus
one use
The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.
- בִמְצוֹלֹ֖תvimtzolotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in depths
Nehemiah
one use
You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
- בִמְצוֹלֹ֛תvimtzolotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in depths
Job
one use
He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
- מְצוּלָ֑הmetzulahnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
Psalms
five uses
The Lord said, “I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them up from the depths of the sea,
- מִֽמְּצֻל֥וֹתmimetzulotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from depths of
I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.
- מְ֭צוּלָהmetzulahnoun · feminine singulartagged: depth
Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.
- מְצוּלָ֑הmetzulahnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
- בִּמְצֹלֽוֹת׃bimtzolotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in depths
They saw the works of the LORD, and His wonders in the deep.
- בִּמְצוּלָֽה׃bimtzulahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: in deep
Jonah
one use
For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
- מְצוּלָה֙metzulahnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
Micah
one use
He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
- בִּמְצֻל֥וֹתbimtzulotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in depths of
Zechariah
one use
They will pass through the sea of distress and strike the waves of the sea; all the depths of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.
- מְצוּל֣וֹתmetzulotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: depths of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.