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title: עָמֵק — deep · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָמֵק (6011), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: deep. BDB 1906: adj. deep, unfathomable. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָמֵק

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«עָמֵק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **deep** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 6011 · **BDB:** עָמֵק

### Glosses

depth (1); the.depths (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

deep [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6011/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. deep, unfathomable [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6011/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. deep, unfathomable;—pl. cstr. עִמְקֵי שָׂפָה (Ges§ 93 ii) i.e. unintelligible of speech Is 33:19; Ez 3:5, 6.—Pr 9:18 v. עֹמֶק.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָמֵק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6011/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 9:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.18/)

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וְֽלֹא־יָ֭דַע כִּֽי־רְפָאִ֣ים שָׁ֑ם בְּעִמְקֵ֖י שְׁא֣וֹל קְרֻאֶֽיהָ׃פ

*Word for word:* and not he.knows (dm).that \[the\].shades \[are\].there \[are\].in the.depths of.Sheol her.invited \[men\]

*JPS 1917:* But he knoweth not that the shades are there; that her guests are in the depths of the nether-world.

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[Proverbs 25:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.3/)

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שָׁמַ֣יִם לָ֭רוּם וָאָ֣רֶץ לָעֹ֑מֶק וְלֵ֥ב מְ֝לָכִ֗ים אֵ֣ין חֵֽקֶר׃

*Word for word:* heaven for (the) height and earth for (the) depth and.\[the\] heart of.kings there.\[is\].not searching

*JPS 1917:* The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

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