'Deep' in the Bible

Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its 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 were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

Of Joseph he said, "His land is blessed by Yahweh, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath,

Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.

So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head; and they went away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh was fallen on them.

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

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

My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.'

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;

"Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.

At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep.

You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.

You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

These see Yahweh's works, and his wonders in the deep.

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,

The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.

For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh's breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language that you can't understand.

who says to the deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your rivers;'

Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You will drink of your sister's cup, which is deep and large; you will be ridiculed and held in derision; it contains much.

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you;

The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.

Yet heard I the voice of his words; and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I fallen into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground.

The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them.

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.

The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.