Strong H8415תְּהוֹם

abyss

Transliteration: tehôm tehôm
Pronunciation: {teh-home'} teh-home'
Morphology: Hebrew Noun

Definition

(Usually feminine) from H1949; an abyss (as a surging mass of {water}) especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean water supply): - deep ({place}) depth.

Detailed definition

1) deep, depths, deep places, abyss, the deep, sea
1a) deep (of subterranean waters)
1b) deep, sea, abysses (of sea)
1c) primeval ocean, deep
1d) deep, depth (of river)
1e) abyss, the grave

In the Bible

Strong H8415 appears in 35 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

deep19
depth15
place1
unto1

First verses

Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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 up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis 8:2
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
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 under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
Exodus 15:5
The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
Exodus 15:8
And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
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,
Job 28:14
The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Job 38:16
Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
Job 38:30
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Job 41:32
He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
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 77:16
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
Psalms 78:15
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
Psalms 104:6
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
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.