עָמֵק
amek · deep
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6012 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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amek (עָמֵק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “deep”.
What is profound, hard to reach or to understand.
How to say it
a·mek
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A very deep place, unseen and out of reach, like the shadows of Sheol.
- Hard to understand: strange speech.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- obscure ×2
- are in the depths ×1
- speech too deep ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Proverbs 9:18
But he does not know that the shades are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- Isaiah 33:19
The insolent people you will not see, a people of speech too deep to understand, of a stammering tongue without understanding.
- Ezekiel 3:5
For not to a people of obscure speech and heavy tongue are you sent, but to the house of Israel;
- Ezekiel 3:6
not to many peoples of obscure speech and heavy tongue, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would listen to you.