Tehom

Tehom was the mythological cosmic ocean of Biblical cosmology, covering the Earth until God created the firmament to divide it into upper and lower portions and reveal the dry land; the world has been protected from the cosmic ocean ever since by the solid dome of the firmament.
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==Myths and Legends==
Tehom is a cognate of the Akkadian word tamtu and Ugaritic t-h-m which have similar meaning. As such it was equated with the earlier Sumerian Tiamat. In Modern Arabic, Tihamah refers to a coastal plain of the Red Sea.
Tehom is mentioned the first time in Genesis 1:2, where it is translated as "deep":
From here that the waters of Noah's deluge had its origin, the place were God leave temporarily the Red Sea when the Isrealites crossed for escape from the pharaoh in the book of Exodus.
The Gnostics used this text for propose that the original creator, called Pleroma or Bythos, preexisted to Elohim, and give place to the later divinities and spirits, through of emanations.