Deep
Deep
(the representative in the A. V. of several Heb. words, especially , tehom’, Gen 1:2, etc. an abyss, often rendered depth; , Luk 8:31; Rom 10:7, elsewhere bottomless pit’). The deep, or the great deep, in its literal sense, signifies, chiefly in Scripture
1. Hell, the place of punishment, the bottomless pit (Luk 8:31; Rev 9:1; Rev 11:7).
2. The common receptacle of the dead; the grave, the deep or depths of the earth, under which the body is deposited: the state of the soul corresponding thereto, still more unseen, still deeper, still further distant from human inspection, is that remote country, that bourne from whence no traveler returns (Rom 10:7).
3. The deepest parts of the sea.(Psa 49:15; Psa 107:26).
4. The chaos, which, in the beginning of the world, was unformed and vacant (Gen 1:2). SEE ABYSS.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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used to denote (1) the grave or the abyss (Rom. 10:7; Luke 8:31); (2) the deepest part of the sea (Ps. 69:15); (3) the chaos mentioned in Gen. 1:2; (4) the bottomless pit, hell (Rev. 9:1, 2; 11:7; 20:13).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
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Rom 10:7, “who shall descend into the deep?” A proverb for impossibility: “say not in thine heart, I wish one could bring Christ up from the dead, but it is impossible.” Nay, salvation “is nigh thee,” only “believe” in the Lord Jesus raised from the dead, “and thou shalt be saved.” Greek abyss (Luk 8:31), literally, the bottomless place. Translated in Rev 9:1-2; Rev 9:11; Rev 11:7; Rev 11:17, “bottomless pit.” The demons in the Gadarene besought not to be cast into the abyss, i.e. before their time, the day of final judgment. 2Pe 2:4; they are “delivered into chains of darkness, and reserved unto judgment.”
They are free to hurt meanwhile, like a chained beast, only to the length of their chain (Jud 1:6). The “darkness of this present world,” the “air” (Eph 2:2), is their peculiar element; they look forward with agonizing fear to their final torment in the bottomless pit (Rev 20:10). Language is used as though the abyss were in the lowest depth of our earth. We do not know whether this is literal, or an accommodation to human conceptions, to express the farthest removal from the heavenly light.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Deep
DEEP.See Abyss.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
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(, tehom; , abussos, Luk 8:31 the King James Version; Rom 10:7 the King James Version; , bathos, Luk 5:4; , buthos, 2Co 11:25): The Hebrew word (water in commotion) is used (1) of the primeval watery waste (Gen 1:2), where some suggest a connection with Babylonian Tiamat in the creation-epic; (2) of the sea (Isa 51:10 and commonly); (3) of the subterranean reservoir of water (Gen 7:11; Gen 8:2; Gen 49:25; Deu 33:13; Eze 31:4, etc.). In the Revised Version (British and American) the Greek word first noted is rendered, literally, abyss. See ABYSS; also ASTRONOMY, III, 7.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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Psa 36:6 (b) This word describes the mysteries of GOD which cannot be fathomed.
Psa 69:2 (b) Here is a description of the terrible sufferings of CHRIST.
Dan 2:22 (b) This is a figure to describe the marvelous mysteries of GOD which cannot be discovered or understood except by divine revelation.
Rom 10:7 (a) Undoubtedly this word refers to “Sheol” of the Old Testament.