עָמֹק
deep
also: mysterious, depths 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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H6013 appears in the Book of Psalms — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Psalms
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew adjective עמק centers on the idea of “deep.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “deeper” in the King James Version, “be deeper” (Berean Standard Bible) and “deep” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It turns up in 16 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Leviticus (44%), then Proverbs and Job. Alongside “deep” the lexicon also lists “mysterious” and “depths” — part of its full sense range. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6013 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 →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,671
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,671 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
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 16 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 8 verses · 50%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 7 verses · 44%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 6%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Deeper 6×, Is a deep 2×
- American Standard Version†: Is a deep 2×, Is deep 2×, Thereof be deeper 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Be deeper 6×, Are deep 2×, Is a deep 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Deep 7×, Deeper 4×, Is deeper 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6013 across 16† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6013 across 16† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6013 across 16† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6013 across 17† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
עמק I be deep (NH in deriv.
עמק II deep (cf. BaNB § 23b)
- 1. ע׳ lit. Lv 13:3 + 6 times Lv 13; f. עֲמֻקָּה of cup Ez 23:32, trench Pr 22:14; 23:27 (all 3 in sim.); ע׳ מִשְּׁאוֹל Jb 11:8 (fig.); pl. מַיִם עֲמֻקִּים (sim.) Pr 18:4; 20:5. e.g. Leviticus 13:3
- 2. = unsearchable עָמֹק ψ 64:7 Ec 7:24(×2); pl. עֲמֻקוֹת (Baer עֲמוּקוֹת, van d. H. עֲמֻקּוֹת) Jb 12:22. e.g. Psalms 64:7
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. vb. be deep (NH in deriv.; Arabic عَمُقَ; Ethiopic ዐመቀ: prob. Assyrian [emêḳu
II. adj. deep (cf. BaNB § 23b);—
— 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.
עָמַק
- (b. h.) to be depressed, deep.
- 1. to deepen. Ex. R. s. 1 הֶעֱמִיקוּ עצה וכ׳ they laid deep plans that the Lord etc.
- 2. to grow deeper. Yalk. Is. 302 (play on תפתה, Is. XXX, 33) אף היא מתפתה … ומרחבת ומַעֲמֶקֶת it (Gehenna) likewise extends every day and becomes wider and deeper.—[Cant. R. to IV, 4 והיה מעמקו some ed., v. עָקַם.] e.g. Isaiah 30:33
עֹמֶק
- , v. עוֹמֶק
עֵמֶק
- preced. wds.)
- 1. valley. Shebi. IX, 2 גליל העליון … והע׳ Upper Galilee, Lower Galilee, and the (Galilean) valley; תחום טבריא הע׳ the district of Tiberias is the valley (of Galilee). Tosef. ib. VII, 10 ההר והע׳ והשפלה the mountain land, the valley, and the lowland. Ib. אוכלין מבהר על שבע׳ (in the Sabbatical year) you may eat the mountain fruits as long as the same kind is still to be had in the valleys. Ib. הר והורו ע׳ ועִמְקוֹ וכ׳ mountain land and an elevation on it, a valley and a depression in it, lowland and a lower plain in it (are respectively subject to the same laws); Y. ib. X, 38ᵈ bot. (corr. acc.). Ib. מלוד עד הים ע׳ from Lydda to the sea is the valley (of Judæa), v. שְׁפֵלָה; a. fr.—Pl. עֲמָקִים. Ib. סימן לע׳ תמרים the presence of palms indicates valleys; Tosef. l. c. סימן לע׳ דקלים.
- 2. pr. n. pl. ʿEmeḳ, in the district of Tyre. Tosef. Shebi. IV, 9 (Y. Dem. II, 22ᵈ top אמון).
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 12 distinct written forms H6013 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| עָמֹ֖ק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 7:24 | 3 |
| עָמֹ֣ק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:25 | 3 |
| עֲ֭מֻקִּים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Proverbs 18:4 | 2 |
| הָ/עֲמֻקָּ֖ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 23:32 | 1 |
| וְ/עָמֹ֥ק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 7:24 | 1 |
| וְ/עָמֹק֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:4 | 1 |
| עֲ֭מֻקָּה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 22:14 | 1 |
| עֲ֭מֻקוֹת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Job 12:22 | 1 |
| עֲמֻקָּ֣ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 23:27 | 1 |
| עֲמֻקָּ֥ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Job 11:8 | 1 |
| עָמֹֽק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 64:6 | 1 |
| עָמֹק֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6013, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 16 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 16 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
