Depth
מְצוֹלָהStrong’s H4688metsolah (me-tso-lah)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Metsolah is the Hebrew word usually translated “depths”, “deep” and “from depths of”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.”
Meaning
- Depth, the deep, the deep sea
How it's translated
- in depths 3
- deep 3
- from depths of 1
- depth 1
- in deep 1
- in depths of 1
- depths of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Exodus 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Job 1
- Jonah 1
- Micah 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 15:5The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
- Nehemiah 9:11And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
- Job 41:31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
- Psalms 68:22The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
- Psalms 69:2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
- Psalms 69:15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Hebrew dictionary
מְצוֹלָה metsolah · depth
depth, the deep, the deep sea
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “depth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEPTH, noun
- Deepness; the distance or measure of a thing from the surface to the bottom, or to the extreme part downwards or inwards.
- A deep place.
- The sea, the ocean.“The depth closed me round about” Jonah 2:5
- The abyss; a gulf of infinite profundity.“When he set a compass on the face of the depth” Proverbs 8:27
All definitions
- The middle or highth of a season, as the depth of winter; or the middle, the darkest or stillest part, as the depth of night; or the inner part, a part remote from the border, as the depth of a wood or forest.
- Abstruseness; obscurity; that which is not easily explored; as the depth of a science.
- Unsearchableness; infinity.“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God” Romans 11:33
- The breadth and depth of the love of Christ, are its vast extent.
- Profoundness; extent of penetration, or of the capacity of penetrating; as depth of understanding; depth of skill.
- The depth of a squadron or battalion, is the number of men in a file, which forms the extent from the front to the rear; as a depth of three men or six men.
- depth of a sail, the extent of the square sails from the head-rope to the foot-rope, or the length of the after-leech of a stay-sail or boom-sail.
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.