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Depth

עֹ֫מֶקStrong’s H6011

omeq (o-meq)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Omeq is the Hebrew word usually translated “depth”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.”
Proverbs 25:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. Depth
How it's translated
  • for depth 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Proverbs 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    עֹ֫מֶק omeq · depth

    depth

    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

    1. Deepness; the distance or measure of a thing from the surface to the bottom, or to the extreme part downwards or inwards.
    2. A deep place.
    3. The sea, the ocean.“The depth closed me round about” Jonah 2:5
    4. The abyss; a gulf of infinite profundity.“When he set a compass on the face of the depth” Proverbs 8:27
    All definitions
    1. 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.
    2. Abstruseness; obscurity; that which is not easily explored; as the depth of a science.
    3. Unsearchableness; infinity.“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God” Romans 11:33
    4. The breadth and depth of the love of Christ, are its vast extent.
    5. Profoundness; extent of penetration, or of the capacity of penetrating; as depth of understanding; depth of skill.
    6. 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.
    7. 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.