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# מַעֲמַקִּים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4615

**depths** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

depths [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4615/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעֲמַקִּים²: n.m.pl. depths [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4615/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.pl. depths;—abs. מ׳ ψ 130:1 (fig.); cstr. lit. מַעֲמַקֵּי־יָם Is 51:10; fig. מ׳ מַיִם Ez 27:34 (fall of Tyre), ψ 69:3, 15 (distress).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: depths (4); \[the\] depths (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 130:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.130.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.130.1/#tree)

שִׁ֥יר הַֽמַּעֲל֑וֹתמִמַּעֲמַקִּ֖ים קְרָאתִ֣יךָ יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.song of the.ascents from.\[the\] depths I call.out.to.you O.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths have I called Thee, O LORD.

[Psalms 69:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.3/#tree)

טָבַ֤עְתִּי ׀ בִּיוֵ֣ן מְ֭צוּלָה וְאֵ֣ין מָעֳמָ֑ד בָּ֥אתִי בְמַעֲמַקֵּי־מַ֝֗יִם וְשִׁבֹּ֥לֶת שְׁטָפָֽתְנִי׃

*Word for word:* I.have.sunk in mire of.depth and there.\[is\].not a.foothold I.have.come in depths of.water and a.flood it has.overflowed.me

*JPS 1917:* I am sunk in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into deep waters, and the flood overwhelmeth me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4615.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4615/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).