Schepping en vertaling (3): Is tohoe wabohoe een chaos? (februari 10, 2009)
"And darkness was upon the face of the deep." תּהום, from הוּם, to roar, to rage, denotes the raging waters, the roaring waves (Psa_42:7) or flood (Exo_15:5; Deu_8:7); and hence the depths of the sea (Job_28:14; Job_38:16), and even the abyss of the earth (Psa_71:20). As an old traditional word, it is construed like a proper name without an article (Ewald, Gramm.). The chaotic mass in which the earth and the firmament were still undistinguished, unformed, and as it were unborn, was a heaving deep, an abyss of waters (ἄβυσσος, lxx), and this deep was wrapped in darkness.