BDB9115 [H8415]

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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