תִּהוֺם noun feminine1 Mos 7,11 + 7 t. and masculineJob 28,14 + 5 t. (AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 62 Köii. 2. 167 Ency. Bib.DEEP) deep, sea, abyss (almost always in poetry); — absolute ׳ת 1 Mos 1,2 +; plural absolute תְּהֹמוֺת Sl 77,17 +, etc., ׳בַּתּ Es 63,13 + Es 106,9 (only here with article); construct תְּהוֺמוֺת Es 71,20 (but see 5 infra); —
1. deep, of subterranean waters,
1 Mos 49,25 (poem in
J; opposed to
שָׁמַיִם),
5 Mos 33,13 (opposed to
id.);
׳רַבָּה מַעְיְנוֺת ת 1 Mos 7,11;
1 Mos 8,2 (
P; ||
אֲרֻבֹּת הַשָּׁמַיִם),
׳עִינוֺת ת Ord 8,28 (||
שְׁחָקִים),
Job 28,14;
Job 38,16 (both ||
יָם);
תְּהוֺם רַבָּה Amos 7,4 (probably),
רַבָּה ׳מִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ ת Sl 36,7 (opposed to
אֵל צִדְקָֽתְךָ כְּהַרְרֵי),
Es 51,10 (perhaps); so plural
תְּהֹמוֺת,
Ord 8,24 (||
מַעְיָנוֺת),
Ord 3,20 (opposed to
שְׁחָקִים), and probably
Sl 33,7 (||
מֵי הַיָּם),
Sl 135,6 ( +
יַמִּים).
2. (deep)
sea, overwhelming Tyre
Ezk 26,19 (||
הַמַּיִם הָרַבִּים), roaring at theoph.
Hab 3,10 in general, ||
יָם,
Job 38,30 (
׳פְּנֵי ת); ||
מַיִם Jon 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,
2 Mos 15,5;
2 Mos 15,8 (of Red Sea, so)
Es 63,13 ||
Sl 106,9;
Sl 77,17 also
Sl 78,15 (in simile),
Sl 107,26 (poetic of hollows of great waves, opposed to
שָׁמַיִם); vaguely,
כָּלתְּֿהֹמוֺת Sl 135,6;
Sl 148,7.
3. primaeval ocean, deep, in Hebrew cosmogony,
׳פְּנֵי ת 1 Mos 1,2 (
P; ||
פְּנֵי הַמַּיִם),
Ord 8,27 (||
שָׁמַיִם),
Sl 104,6. — (compare, further,
GunkSchöpfung u. Chaos 21 ff. OCWhitehouse
Hast. DB COSMOGONY ZimKAT3. 492 f., 509 f., 585).
4. deep, depth, of river
Ezk 31,4 (Nile; ||
מַיִם, +
נַהֲרוֺתֶיהָ), v
Ezk 31,15 (||
id.); plural of
bursts of water fertilizing Canaan,
יוצאים בבקעה ובהר 5 Mos 8,7 ( +
עֲיָנֹת,
נַחֲלֵי מַיִם). — On
Sl 42,8 see
2. 5. abyss (si vera lectio):
תְּהוֺמוֺת הָאָרֶץ =
Shejôl,
Sl 71,20, but
Ol We תַּחְתִיּוֺת.
[תַּחְפֻּכָה] see הפך. תָּו see תוה. below,
תּוֺא see תְּאוֺ. [תּוֺאָם] see תאם.