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# עָמֵק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6012

**deep** — used 3 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

deep [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6012/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָמֵק: adj. deep, unfathomable [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6012/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. deep, unfathomable;—pl. cstr. עִמְקֵי שָׂפָה (Ges§ 93 ii) i.e. unintelligible of speech Is 33:19; Ez 3:5, 6.—Pr 9:18 v. עֹמֶק.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: deep (2); \[too\] deep (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 33:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.19/#tree)

אֶת־עַ֥ם נוֹעָ֖ז לֹ֣א תִרְאֶ֑ה עַ֣ם עִמְקֵ֤י שָׂפָה֙ מִשְּׁמ֔וֹעַ נִלְעַ֥ג לָשׁ֖וֹן אֵ֥ין בִּינָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (et) a.people barbarous not you.will.see a.people \[too\].deep of.language for hearing stammering of.tongue there.\[is\].not understanding

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not see the fierce people; a people of a deep speech that thou canst not perceive, of a stammering tongue that thou canst not understand.

[Ezekiel 3:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.3.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.3.5/#tree)

כִּ֡י לֹא֩ אֶל־עַ֨ם עִמְקֵ֥י שָׂפָ֛ה וְכִבְדֵ֥י לָשׁ֖וֹן אַתָּ֣ה שָׁל֑וּחַ אֶל־בֵּ֖ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* (dm) not to a.people deep of.language and heavy of.language you \[are.being\].sent to the.house of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* For thou art not sent to a people of an unintelligible speech and of a slow tongue, but to the house of Israel;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6012.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6012/): 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).