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# עָמֵק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6011

**deep** — used 2 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/1506/6011/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָמֵק: adj. deep, unfathomable [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6011/#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, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 9:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.18/#tree)

וְֽלֹא־יָ֭דַע כִּֽי־רְפָאִ֣ים שָׁ֑ם בְּעִמְקֵ֖י שְׁא֣וֹל קְרֻאֶֽיהָ׃פ

*Word for word:* and not he.knows (dm).that \[the\].shades \[are\].there \[are\].in the.depths of.Sheol her.invited \[men\]

*JPS 1917:* But he knoweth not that the shades are there; that her guests are in the depths of the nether-world.

[Proverbs 25:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.3/#tree)

שָׁמַ֣יִם לָ֭רוּם וָאָ֣רֶץ לָעֹ֑מֶק וְלֵ֥ב מְ֝לָכִ֗ים אֵ֣ין חֵֽקֶר׃

*Word for word:* heaven for (the) height and earth for (the) depth and.\[the\] heart of.kings there.\[is\].not searching

*JPS 1917:* The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6011.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6011/): 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).