H4688 - מְצוֹלָה (mᵉtsôwlâh)

H4688 מְצוֹלָה (mᵉtsôwlâh) mets-o-law'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

depth

Strong's Definition

a deep place (of water or mud)

Derivation: or מְצֹלָה; also מְצוּלָה; or מְצֻלָה; from the same as H6683 (צוּלָה);

KJV Usage: bottom, deep, depth.

TWOT Reference: 1889b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) depth, the deep, the deep sea

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G12 G899 G1037 G1037 G2288

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

depth, the deep, the deep sea

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מְצֻלָה / מְצוּלָה / מְצֹלָה / מְצוֹלָה metsôlâh / metsûlâh BDB Definition: 1) depth, the deep, the deep sea Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from the same as H6683 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1889b Total KJV Occurrences: 11

Bible Occurrences (11)

15:5

9:11

41:31

68:22 69:2 69:15 88:6 107:24

2:3

7:19

10:11

Exodus 15:5

The depths have covered them; they sank [there] like a stone.

Nehemiah 9:11

You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters....

Job 41:31

He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

Jonah 2:3

For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

Micah 7:19

He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Zechariah 10:11

They will pass through the sea of distress and strike the waves of the sea; all the depths of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.