'Deep' in the Bible

The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;

Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, terror and great darkness fell upon him.

From the God of your father who helps you,And by the Almighty who blesses youWith blessings of heaven above,Blessings of the deep that lies beneath,Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

Now there went forth a wind from the Lord and it brought quail from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp and about two cubits deep on the surface of the ground.

Of Joseph he said,“Blessed of the Lord be his land,With the choice things of heaven, with the dew,And from the deep lying beneath,

They took Absalom and cast him into a deep pit in the forest and erected over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled, each to his tent.

“Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night,When deep sleep falls on men,

Before I go—and I shall not return—To the land of darkness and deep shadow,

The land of utter gloom as darkness itself,Of deep shadow without order,And which shines as the darkness.”

“He reveals mysteries from the darknessAnd brings the deep darkness into light.

“My face is flushed from weeping,And deep darkness is on my eyelids,

But I am not silenced by the darkness,Nor deep gloom which covers me.

“Man puts an end to darkness,And to the farthest limit he searches outThe rock in gloom and deep shadow.

“The deep says, ‘It is not in me’;And the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’

“There is no darkness or deep shadowWhere the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

“Have you entered into the springs of the seaOr walked in the recesses of the deep?

“Have the gates of death been revealed to you,Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

“Water becomes hard like stone,And the surface of the deep is imprisoned.

“Behind him he makes a wake to shine;One would think the deep to be gray-haired.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;Your judgments are like a great deep.O Lord, You preserve man and beast.

For Your arrows have sunk deep into me,And Your hand has pressed down on me.

Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

They devise injustices, saying,“We are ready with a well-conceived plot”;For the inward thought and the heart of a man are deep.

I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold;I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.

Deliver me from the mire and do not let me sink;May I be delivered from my foes and from the deep waters.

May the flood of water not overflow meNor the deep swallow me up,Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.

You cleared the ground before it,And it took deep root and filled the land.

How great are Your works, O Lord!Your thoughts are very deep.

You covered it with the deep as with a garment;The waters were standing above the mountains.

They have seen the works of the Lord,And His wonders in the deep.

“May burning coals fall upon them;May they be cast into the fire,Into deep pits from which they cannot rise.

“When He established the heavens, I was there,When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,

When He made firm the skies above,When the springs of the deep became fixed,

The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters;The fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.

Laziness casts into a deep sleep,And an idle man will suffer hunger.

A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water,But a man of understanding draws it out.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit;He who is cursed of the Lord will fall into it.

For a harlot is a deep pitAnd an adulterous woman is a narrow well.

“Ask a sign for yourself from the Lord your God; make it deep as Sheol or high as heaven.”

For the Lord has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep,He has shut your eyes, the prophets;And He has covered your heads, the seers.

For Topheth has long been ready,Indeed, it has been prepared for the king.He has made it deep and large,A pyre of fire with plenty of wood;The breath of the Lord, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.

Was it not You who dried up the sea,The waters of the great deep;Who made the depths of the sea a pathwayFor the redeemed to cross over?

“For behold, darkness will cover the earthAnd deep darkness the peoples;But the Lord will rise upon youAnd His glory will appear upon you.

“They did not say, ‘Where is the LordWho brought us up out of the land of Egypt,Who led us through the wilderness,Through a land of deserts and of pits,Through a land of drought and of deep darkness,Through a land that no one crossedAnd where no man dwelt?’

Give glory to the Lord your God,Before He brings darknessAnd before your feet stumbleOn the dusky mountains,And while you are hoping for lightHe makes it into deep darkness,And turns it into gloom.

Thus says the Lord God,‘You will drink your sister’s cup,Which is deep and wide.You will be laughed at and held in derision;It contains much.

For thus says the Lord God, “When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,

‘The waters made it grow, the deep made it high.With its rivers it continually extended all around its planting place,And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

‘Thus says the Lord God, “On the day when it went down to Sheol I caused lamentations; I closed the deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it.

Now while he was talking with me, I sank into a deep sleep with my face to the ground; but he touched me and made me stand upright.

But I heard the sound of his words; and as soon as I heard the sound of his words, I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face to the ground.

The revolters have gone deep in depravity,But I will chastise all of them.

They have gone deep in depravityAs in the days of Gibeah;He will remember their iniquity,He will punish their sins.

He who made the Pleiades and OrionAnd changes deep darkness into morning,Who also darkens day into night,Who calls for the waters of the seaAnd pours them out on the surface of the earth,The Lord is His name.

Thus the Lord God showed me, and behold, the Lord God was calling to contend with them by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the farm land.

“For You had cast me into the deep,Into the heart of the seas,And the current engulfed me.All Your breakers and billows passed over me.

“Water encompassed me to the point of death.The great deep engulfed me,Weeds were wrapped around my head.

The mountains saw You and quaked;The downpour of waters swept by.The deep uttered forth its voice,It lifted high its hands.