Hebrew adjective · H6012
עָמֵק
ameqaw-make'
unfathomable
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâmêq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6012is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6012
deep (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: deeper, depth, strange.
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
ameq is rendered "unfathomable". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Proverbs 9:18But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Proverbs 9:18בְּעִמְקֵ֖י
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
- deep of2
- in depths of1
- unintelligible 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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עָמֵל | amel | labour(er) | Uses9 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- עִמְקֵ֤י2
- בְּעִמְקֵ֖י1
- עִמְקֵ֥י1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)3HAampc
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmpc
Proverbs
one use
But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- בְּעִמְקֵ֖יbeimkeipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in depths of
Isaiah
one use
You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.
- עִמְקֵ֤יʾimkeiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: unintelligible of
Ezekiel
two uses
For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
- עִמְקֵ֥יʾimkeiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: deep of
not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
- עִמְקֵ֤יʾimkeiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: deep 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.