H6012 - עָמֵק (ʻâmêq)

H6012 עָמֵק (ʻâmêq) aw-make'

Hebrew

Adjective (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

unfathomable

Strong's Definition

deep (literally or figuratively)

Derivation: from H6009 (עָמַק);

KJV Usage: deeper, depth, strange.

TWOT Reference: 1644c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) deep, unfathomable

1a) unintelligible (of speech)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) deep, unfathomable 1a) unintelligible (of speech) Aramaic equivalent: a.miq (עֲמִיק "deep" H5994)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

עָמֵק ‛âmêq BDB Definition: 1) deep, unfathomable 1a) unintelligible (of speech) Part of Speech: adjective A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H6009 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1644c Total KJV Occurrences: 4

Bible Occurrences (4)

9:18

33:19

3:5 3:6

Proverbs 9:18

But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests [are] in the depths of Sheol.

Isaiah 33:19

You will no longer see the insolent..., a people whose speech is unintelligible -, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.

Ezekiel 3:5

For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel —

Ezekiel 3:6

not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely... if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.