me.tso.lah denotes the deep, especially depths associated with seas, waters, and overwhelming descent.

The term denotes deep places, most visibly depths connected with the sea or other waters: pursuers sink there in Exodus 15:5 and Nehemiah 9:11, sins are cast into the sea’s depths in Micah 7:19, and the Nile has depths in Zechariah 10:11. Its singular and plural forms occur across these water-and-descent settings, while several supplied translation lines leave the term’s precise English correspondence unstated.

1. Deep watery places or depths · dominant

   Plural forms occur where people are thrown down in the sea in Exodus 15:5 and Nehemiah 9:11; in both verses the APB renders the result as going or being thrown into “the depths” like a stone. In Micah 7:19 the construct plural is part of the clause about throwing sins into “the depths of the sea,” and in Zechariah 10:11 it is part of the clause concerning “the depths of the Nile.”

   Exodus 15:5Nehemiah 9:11Micah 7:19Psalm 107:24Psalm 88:7Zechariah 10:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “the depths” in Exodus 15:5, Nehemiah 9:11, Micah 7:19, and Zechariah 10:11, and “the deep” in Psalm 107:24. Its wording in several other verses does not isolate this term’s contribution.