Lexical Definition

‎תְּהוֹם‎ tᵉhôwm (teh-home') abyss ^H:N
or תְּהֹם tᵉhôm (teh-home'); (usually feminine) from ‎הוּם‎

deep (place), depth.

• an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean watersupply)

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

See Greek: ἄβυσσος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎תִּהוֺם‎ noun feminine^{Gen 7:11 + 7 t.} and masculine^{Job 28:14 + 5 t.} (Albr^{ZAW xvi (1896), 62} Kö^{ii. 2. 167 Ency. Bib}.^DEEP) deep, sea, abyss (almost always in poetry); — absolute ‎׳‎‎ת‎ Gen 1:2 +; plural absolute ‎תְּהֹמוֺת‎ Ps 77:17* +, etc., ‎׳‎‎בַּתּ‎ Isa 63:13 + Isa 106:9 (only here with article); construct ‎תְּהוֺמוֺת‎ Isa 71:20 (but see 5 infra); —

1. deep, of subterranean waters, Gen 49:25 (poem in J; opposed to ‎שָׁמַיִם‎), Deut 33:13 (opposed to id.); ‎׳‎‎רַבָּה מַעְיְנוֺת ת‎ Gen 7:11; Gen 8:2 (P; || ‎אֲרֻבֹּת הַשָּׁמַיִם‎), ‎׳‎‎עִינוֺת ת‎ Prov 8:28 (|| ‎שְׁחָקִים‎), Job 28:14; Job 38:16 (both || ‎יָם‎); ‎תְּהוֺם רַבָּה‎ Amos 7:4 (probably), ‎רַבָּה‎ ‎׳‎‎מִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ ת‎ Ps 36:7* (opposed to ‎אֵל צִדְקָֽתְךָ כְּהַרְרֵי‎), Isa 51:10 (perhaps); so plural ‎תְּהֹמוֺת‎, Prov 8:24 (|| ‎מַעְיָנוֺת‎), Prov 3:20 (opposed to ‎שְׁחָקִים‎), and probably Ps 33:7 (|| ‎מֵי הַיָּם‎), Ps 135:6 ( + ‎יַמִּים‎).

2. (deep) sea, overwhelming Tyre Ezek 26:19 (|| ‎הַמַּיִם הָרַבִּים‎), roaring at theoph. Hab 3:10 in general, || ‎יָם‎, Job 38:30 (‎׳‎‎פְּנֵי ת‎); || ‎מַיִם‎ Jonah 2:6* alonE Job 41:24* figurative, ‎קוֺרַא‎ ‎׳‎‎אֶלתֿ‎ ‎׳‎‎ת‎ Job 42:8 (|| ‎מִשְׁבָּרִים‎, ‎גַּלִּים‎; but possibly here of Jordan, compare 4); in plural = abysses of sea, Exod 15:5; Exod 15:8 (of Red Sea, so) Isa 63:13 || Ps 106:9; Ps 77:17* also Ps 78:15 (in simile), Ps 107:26 (poetic of hollows of great waves, opposed to ‎שָׁמַיִם‎); vaguely, ‎כָּלתְּֿהֹמוֺת‎ Ps 135:6; Ps 148:7.

3. primaeval ocean, deep, in Hebrew cosmogony, ‎׳‎‎פְּנֵי ת‎ Gen 1:2 (P; || ‎פְּנֵי הַמַּיִם‎), Prov 8:27 (|| ‎שָׁמַיִם‎), Ps 104:6. — (compare, further, Gunk^{Schöpfung u. Chaos 21 ff.} OCWhitehouse^{Hast. DB COSMOGONY} Zim^{KAT3. 492 f., 509 f., 585}).

4. deep, depth, of river Ezek 31:4 (Nile; || ‎מַיִם‎, + ‎נַהֲרוֺתֶיהָ‎), vEzek 31:15 (|| id.); plural of bursts of water fertilizing Canaan, ‎יוצאים‎ ‎בבקעה ובהר‎ Deut 8:7 ( + ‎עֲיָנֹת‎, ‎נַחֲלֵי מַיִם‎). — On Ps 42:8* see

2. 5. abyss (si vera lectio): ‎תְּהוֺמוֺת הָאָרֶץ‎ = Shejôl, Ps 71:20, but Ol We ‎תַּחְתִיּוֺת‎.

[‎תַּחְפֻּכָה‎] see ‎הפך‎. ‎תָּו‎ see ‎תוה‎. below, ‎תּוֺא‎ see ‎תְּאוֺ‎. [‎תּוֺאָם‎] see ‎תאם‎.

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