Deep
מַעֲמַקִּיםStrong’s H4615maamaq (ma-a-maq)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maamaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “depths of”, “from depths of” and “from depths”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.”
Meaning
- Depths
How it's translated
- in depths of 2
- and from depths of 1
- from depths 1
- depths of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 69:14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
- Psalms 130:1Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
- Isaiah 51:10Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
- Ezekiel 27:34In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.
Hebrew dictionary
מַעֲמַקִּים maamaq · deep
depths
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “deep” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEEP, adjective
- Extending or being far below the surface; descending far downward; profound; opposed to shallow; as deep water; a deep pit or well.
- Low in situation; being or descending far below the adjacent land; as a deep valley.
- Entering far; piercing a great way.
- Far from the outer part; secreted.
All definitions and other forms of “deep”
- Not superficial or obvious; hidden; secret.“He discovereth deep things out of darkness” Job 12:22
- Remote from comprehension.
- Sagacious; penetrating; having the power to enter far into a subject; as a man of deep thought; a deep divine.
- Artful; contriving; concealing artifice; insidious; designing; as a friend, deep hollow treacherous.
- Grave in sound; low; as the deep tones of an organ.
- Very still; solemn; profound; as deep silence.
- Thick; black; not to be penetrated by the sight.
- Still; sound; not easily broken or disturbed.“The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam” Genesis 2:21
- Depressed; sunk low, metaphorically; as deep poverty.
- Dark; intense; strongly colored; as a deep brown; a deep crimson; a deep blue.
- Unknown; unintelligible.“A people of deeper speech than thou canst perceive” Isaiah 33:19
- Heart-felt; penetrating; affecting; as a deep sense of guilt.
- Intricate; not easily understood or unraveled; as a deep plot or intrigue.
DEEP, noun
- The sea; the abyss of waters; the ocean.
- A lake; a great collection of water.“Lanch out into the deep and let down your nets” Luke 5:4
- That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible.“Thy judgments are a great deep” Psalms 36:6
- The most still or solemn part; the midst; as, in deep of night.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.