Deep
עֲמִיקStrong’s H6012amiq (a-miq)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Amiq is the Hebrew word usually translated “deep of”, “depths of” and “unintelligible of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.”
Meaning
- Deep
- Deep things, deep mysteries
How it's translated
- deep of 2
- in depths of 1
- unintelligible of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 2
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 33:19Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
- Ezekiel 3:5For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
- Ezekiel 3:6Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
Hebrew dictionary
עֲמִיק amiq · deep
adj 1) deep subst 2) deep things, deep mysteries
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.