Metsolah מְצוֹלָה

Metsolah (Hebrew מְצוֹלָה, Strong's H4688) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “depth”. It occurs 11 times in 11 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Metsolah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

• Exodus 15:5
  The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.

Nehemiah

• Nehemiah 9:11
  And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.

Job

• Job 41:31
  He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

Psalms

• Psalm 68:22
  The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:The Lord said, “I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them up from the depths of the sea,
• Psalm 69:2
  I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.
• Psalm 69:15
  Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.
• Psalm 88:6
  Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
• Psalm 107:24
  These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.They saw the works of the LORD, and His wonders in the deep.

Jonah

• Jonah 2:3
  For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

Micah

• Micah 7:19
  He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Zechariah

• Zechariah 10:11
  And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.They will pass through the sea of distress and strike the waves of the sea; all the depths of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).