Hebrew noun · H8415
תְּהוֹם
tehomteh-home'
abyss
36 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tᵉhôwm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8415is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 25spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8415
an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean watersupply)
The King James renders it: deep (place), 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
tehom is rendered "abyss". It stands 36 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Twelve of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 1:2Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-five different ways.
The first use
Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Genesis 1:2תְה֑וֹם
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
- deep21
- deeps8
- in the deeps2
- and deeps1
- and from deep1
- and from depths of1
- depths1
- like deeps1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| תְּהִלָּה | tehillah | praise | Uses56 |
The words it stands beside
All 36, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
25 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
- תְּה֣וֹם7
- תְּה֔וֹם3
- תְּה֖וֹם3
- תְּהוֹמֽוֹת׃2
- בַּ֝תְּהֹמ֗וֹת1
- בַּתְּהֹמ֑וֹת1
- וּמִתְּה֖וֹם1
- וּֽמִתְּהֹמ֥וֹת1
- וּתְהֹמֹ֔ת1
- כִּתְהֹמ֥וֹת1
- תְה֑וֹם1
- תְ֝ה֗וֹם1
and 13 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular21HNcfsa
- noun · feminine plural9HNcfpa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural2HRd/Ncfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural1HC/Ncfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncfpc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular1HC/R/Ncfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine plural1HR/Ncfpa
Genesis
four uses
Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
- תְה֑וֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
- תְּה֣וֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
- תְּה֔וֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.
- תְּה֖וֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
Exodus
two uses
The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.
- תְּהֹמֹ֖תtehomotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: deeps
At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
- תְהֹמֹ֖תtehomotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: deeps
Deuteronomy
two uses
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
- וּתְהֹמֹ֔תutehomotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and deeps
Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,
- וּמִתְּה֖וֹםumitehomconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and from deep
Job
four uses
The ocean depths say, ‘It is not in me,’ while the sea declares, ‘It is not with me.’
- תְּה֣וֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
- תְּ֝ה֗וֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
- תְ֝ה֗וֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
- תְּה֣וֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
Psalms
twelve uses
He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.
- תְּהוֹמֽוֹת׃tehomotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: deeps
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
- תְּה֣וֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
- תְּהֽוֹם־tehom-noun · feminine singulartagged: deep
- תְּה֣וֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
- וּֽמִתְּהֹמ֥וֹתumitehomotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and from depths of
The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.
- תְהֹמֽוֹת׃tehomotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: deeps
He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
- כִּתְהֹמ֥וֹתkithomotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: like deeps
You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
- תְּ֭הוֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
- בַּ֝תְּהֹמ֗וֹתbatehomotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in the deeps
They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths; their courage melted in their anguish.
- תְהוֹמ֑וֹתtehomotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: deeps
The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.
- תְּהוֹמֽוֹת׃tehomotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: deeps
Praise the LORD from the earth, all great sea creatures and ocean depths,
- תְּהֹמֽוֹת׃tehomotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: deeps
Proverbs
four uses
By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.
- תְּהוֹמ֣וֹתtehomotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: depths
When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.
- תְּהֹמ֥וֹתtehomotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: deeps
I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
- תְהֽוֹם׃tehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,
- תְּהוֹם׃tehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
Isaiah
two uses
Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
- תְּה֣וֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble?
- בַּתְּהֹמ֑וֹתbatehomotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in the deeps
Ezekiel
three uses
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,
- תְּה֔וֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
The waters made it grow; the deep springs made it tall, directing their streams all around its base and sending their channels to all the trees of the field.
- תְּה֖וֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.
- תְּה֔וֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
Amos
one use
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
- תְּה֣וֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
Jonah
one use
The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.
- תְּה֖וֹםtehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
Habakkuk
one use
The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.
- תְּהוֹם֙tehomnoun · feminine singulartagged: deep
The letters
Gematria 451· 1,011 mispar gadol
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.
