עָמוֹק
Amok
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Amok’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5987 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Nehemiah 2 verses
About this entry
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עמוק — transliterated ʻÂmôwq — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Amok.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. Its uses cluster heavily in Nehemiah (100% of all occurrences). First canonically at Nehemiah 12:7, it enters the text early. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5987 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Amok 2×
- American Standard Version: Amok 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Amok 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Amok 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5987 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5987 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5987 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5987 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Amok = "to be deep"
- a priest who returned with Zerubbabel
Word origin
n.pr.m. a priest Ne 12:7, 20, Αμουκ.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עמק (ʻâmaq) (H6009) — to be deep.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עָמוֹק
- deep, low; (of color) light-shaded (which in the perspective looks lower, while the darker shade appears to protrude). Sifra Thazr., Neg., ch. I מה לשון עמוק עמוקה כמראה החמה שהם עמוקים מן הצל what does ‘deep’ (Lev. XIII, 2, sq.) mean? A depression, like the sun-lit spots (in a painting &c.), which have the semblance of being deeper than the shaded spots (which appear to be raised); Ḥull. 63ᵃ כמראה חמה העמוקה מן הצל; Tosef. Neg. I, 5 מראה ע׳ שבהן כמראה חמה בצל the lower shade among them is like the reflection of light on a shaded spot. Y. Succ. III, 53ᵈ (expl. אדמדם שבאדומים) זהורית ע׳ ‘low’ (light) crimson. Men. V, 8, a. e. מרחשת ע׳ marḥesheth is a deep pan, v. מַחֲבַת; a. fr.—Pl. עֲמוּקִּים, עֲמוּקִּין; עֲמוּקּוֹת. Sifra l. c.; a. e.—עֲמוּקָּה f. (as a noun) depression. Ib. e.g. Leviticus 13:2
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H5987 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| לְ/עָמ֥וֹק | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 12:20 | 1 |
| עָמ֔וֹק | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 12:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5987, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- מעמק maʻămâq H4615 depths
- עמק ʻêmeq H6010 valley
- עמק ʻômeq H6011 depth
- עמק ʻâmêq H6012 deep
- עמק ʻâmôq H6013 deep
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Amok). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
a priest who returned with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 12:7,20) (B.C. 536.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
a valley; a depth
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
