Footnote

“Watery deep.” Or, “surging waters; water canopy.” Heb., tehohmʹ; LXX, “the abyss”; Vg, “the great abyss.” See 1:2 ftn, “Deep.” According to 1:7 these must have been “the waters that should be above the expanse.” Compare 6:17 ftn, “Deluge.”