amok · deep

What it means

amok (עָמֹק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “deep”.

Sunken; figuratively, hard to understand.

How to say it

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

1. Going far down, not reached at a glance; or hard to grasp.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• deep ×9
• deeper ×8

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×7
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×4
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Ezekiel×1

• Leviticus 13:3

  The priest shall examine the sore on the skin of the body; and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the appearance of the sore is deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous sore; when the priest has examined him he shall declare him unclean.

• Leviticus 13:4

  But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore seven days.

• Leviticus 13:25

  the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the bright spot has turned white and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy; it has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore.

• Leviticus 13:30

  the priest shall examine the sore, and if its appearance is deeper than the skin and there is in it yellowish thin hair, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is ringworm; it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

• Leviticus 13:31

  But if the priest examines the sore of ringworm and, look, its appearance is not deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore of ringworm seven days.

• Leviticus 13:32

  The priest shall examine the sore on the seventh day, and if the ringworm has not spread and there has not been yellowish hair in it, and the appearance of the ringworm is not deeper than the skin,

• Leviticus 13:34

  The priest shall examine the ringworm on the seventh day, and if the ringworm has not spread in the skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, the priest shall declare him clean; he shall wash his garments and be clean.

• Job 11:8

  It is the heights of the heavens; what can you do? Deeper than Sheol; what can you know?

• Job 12:22

  He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

• Psalms 64:6

  They search out injustices: “We have completed a thoroughly searched-out plan.” And the inward part of each one and the heart are deep.

• Proverbs 18:4

  Deep waters are the words of the mouth of a man; a flowing stream, a fountain of wisdom.

• Proverbs 20:5

  Deep waters is counsel in the heart of a man, but a man of insight will draw it out.

• Proverbs 22:14

  A deep pit is the mouth of strange women; he with whom YHWH is indignant will fall there.

• Proverbs 23:27

  For a prostitute is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a narrow well.

• Ecclesiastes 7:24

  Far off is what has been, and deep, deep; who can find it?

• Ezekiel 23:32

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: The cup of your sister you will drink, the deep and the wide; you will be for laughter and for derision; it holds much.

And 1 more times.