Biblical Hebrew Forum

["K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Hey, you two:

What this argument is missing is a reference to the more than 20 times
THWM is found in Tanakh. When taken all together, the term is used to
refer to deep places of water, Though usually found in the singular,
it is also used in the plural as THWMWT.

To suggest that this is a proper noun is not supported by the usages.

Karl W. Randolph.

On 7/10/06, JAMES CHRISTIAN READ <JCR128 AT student.apu.ac.uk> wrote:
> JCR: The imagery at this point in the text is of a
> water covered land with no seas or oceans and the
> heavens (sky/space) above. As the separate oceans
> have not yet been formed there is one unified body of
> water that covers the whole land, Tehom. As there is
> only one body of water it breaks no rules of grammar
> to assign it the proper noun Tehom just as there is
> only one Jerusalem where David and Solomon ruled.
>
>
> James C. Read
> UK