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Lexicon :: Strong's G2281 - thalassa

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θάλασσα
Transliteration
thalassa (Key)
Pronunciation
thal'-as-sah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably prolonged from ἅλς (G251)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

Trench's Synonyms: xiii. θάλασσα, πέλαγος.

Strong’s Definitions

θάλασσα thálassa, thal'-as-sah; probably prolonged from G251; the sea (genitive case or specially):—sea.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 92x

The KJV translates Strong's G2281 in the following manner: sea (92x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 92x
The KJV translates Strong's G2281 in the following manner: sea (92x).

  1. the sea

    1. used of the sea in general

    2. used specifically of the Mediterranean Sea or the Red Sea

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
θάλασσα thálassa, thal'-as-sah; probably prolonged from G251; the sea (genitive case or specially):—sea.
STRONGS G2281:
θάλασσα (cf. Buttmann, 7), θαλάσσης, ἡ (akin to ἅλς (better, allied to ταράσσω etc., from its tossing; cf. Vanicek, p. 303); the Sept. for יָם) (from Homer down), the sea; (on its distinction from πέλαγος see the latter word);
a. universally: Matthew 23:15; Mark 11:23; Luke 17:2, 6; Luke 21:25; Romans 9:27; 2 Corinthians 11:26; Hebrews 11:12; James 1:6; Jude 1:13; Revelation 7:1-3, etc.; ἐργάζεσθαι τήν θαλασσην (see ἐργάζομαι, 2 a.), Revelation 18:17; τό πέλαγος τῆς θαλάσσης (see πέλαγος, a.), Matthew 18:6; joined with γῆ and οὐρανός it forms a periphrasis for the whole world, Acts 4:24; Acts 14:15; Revelation 5:13; Revelation 10:6 (L WH brackets); Revelation 14:7 (Haggai 2:7; Psalm 145:6 (Ps. 146:6); Josephus, Antiquities 4, 3, 2; (contra Apion 2, 10, 1)); among the visions of the Apocalypse a glassy sea or sea of glass is spoken of; but what the writer symbolized by this is not quite clear: Revelation 4:6; Revelation 15:2.
b. specifically used (even without the article, cf. Winers Grammar, 121 (115); Buttmann, § 124, 8b.) of the Mediterranean Sea: Acts 10:6, 32; Acts 17:14; of the Red Sea (see ἐρυθρός), ἡ ἐρυθρᾷ θάλασσα, Acts 7:36; 1 Corinthians 10:1; Hebrews 11:29. By a usage foreign to native Greek writings (cf. Aristotle, meteor. 1, 13, p. 351a, 8 ἡ ὑπό τόν Καυκασον λίμνη ἥν καλοῦσιν οἱ ἐκεῖ θαλατταν, and Hesychius defines λίμνη: ἡ θάλασσα καί ὁ ὠκεανός) employed like the Hebrew יָם (e. g. Numbers 34:11), by Matthew, Mark, and John (nowhere by Luke) of the Lake of Γεννησαρέτ (which see): ἡ θάλασσα τῆς Γαλιλαίας, Matthew 4:18; Matthew 15:29; Mark 1:16; Mark 7:31 (similarly Lake Constance,derBodensee, is called mare Suebicum, the Suabian Sea); τῆς Τιβεριάδος, John 21:1; τῆς Γαλιλαίας τῆς Τιβεριάδος (on which twofold genitive cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 3 N. 3; (Buttmann, 400 (343))), John 6:1; more frequently simply ἡ θάλασσα: Matthew 4:15, 18; Matthew 8:24, 26f, 32; Matthew 13:1, etc.; Mark 2:13; Mark 3:7; Mark 4:1, 39; Mark 5:13, etc.; John 6:16-19, 22, 25; John 21:7. Cf. Furrer in Schenkel ii. 322ff; (see Γεννησαρέτ).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Numbers
34:11
Psalms
145:6; 146:6
Haggai
2:7
Matthew
4:15; 4:18; 4:18; 8:24; 8:26; 8:32; 13:1; 15:29; 18:6; 23:15
Mark
1:16; 2:13; 3:7; 4:1; 4:39; 5:13; 7:31; 11:23
Luke
17:2; 17:6; 21:25
John
6:1; 6:16; 6:17; 6:18; 6:19; 6:22; 6:25; 21:1; 21:7
Acts
4:24; 7:36; 10:6; 10:32; 14:15; 17:14
Romans
9:27
1 Corinthians
10:1
2 Corinthians
11:26
Hebrews
11:12; 11:29
James
1:6
Jude
1:13
Revelation
4:6; 5:13; 7:1; 7:2; 7:3; 10:6; 14:7; 15:2; 18:17

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2281 matches the Greek θάλασσα (thalassa),
which occurs 368 times in 320 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 7 (Gen 1:10–Num 33:10)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:10 - God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:22 - God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26 - Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the [fn]sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the [fn]sky and over every living thing that [fn]moves on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:2 - “The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the [fn]sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 - Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:3 - All these [fn]came as allies to the valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your [fn]seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your [fn]seed shall possess the gate of [fn]their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - “Your [fn]descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will [fn]spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your [fn]descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:12 - “For You said, ‘I will surely [fn]prosper you and make your [fn]descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:49

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - Thus Joseph stored up grain [fn]in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped [fn]measuring it, for it was [fn]beyond measure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - So the LORD shifted the wind to a very strong west wind which took up the locusts and drove them into the [fn]Red Sea; not one locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - Hence God led the people around by the way of the wilderness to the [fn]Red Sea; and the sons of Israel went up in martial array from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:2 - “Tell the sons of Israel to turn back and camp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; you shall camp in front of Baal-zephon, opposite it, by the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:9 - Then the Egyptians chased after them with all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, and they overtook them camping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:16 - “As for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, and the sons of Israel shall [fn]go through the midst of the sea on dry land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:21 - Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD [fn]swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land, so the waters were divided.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:22 - The sons of Israel [fn]went through the midst of the sea on the dry land, and the waters were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:23 - Then the Egyptians took up the pursuit, and all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots and his horsemen went in after them into the midst of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:26 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots and their horsemen.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:27 - So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state at daybreak, while the Egyptians were fleeing [fn]right into it; then the LORD [fn]overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:28 - The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, [fn]even Pharaoh’s entire army that had gone into the sea after them; not even one of them remained.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:29 - But the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea, and the waters were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:30 - Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:1 - Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the LORD, [fn]and said,
“[fn]I will sing to the LORD, for He [fn]is highly exalted;
The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:4 - “Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has cast into the sea;
And the choicest of his officers are [fn]drowned in the [fn]Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8 - “At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up,
The flowing waters stood up like a heap;
The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:10 - “You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them;
They sank like lead in the [fn]mighty waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:19 - For the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:21 - Miriam answered them,
“Sing to the LORD, for He [fn]is highly exalted;
The horse and his rider He has hurled into the sea.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - Then Moses [fn]led Israel from the [fn]Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:11 - “For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - “I will fix your boundary from the [fn]Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:22 - “For the [fn]rear of the tabernacle, to the west, you shall make six boards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:27 - and five bars for the boards of the [fn]other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle for the [fn]rear side to the west.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:12 - “For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits with their ten pillars and their ten [fn]sockets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:12 - For the west side there were hangings of fifty cubits with their ten pillars and their ten [fn]sockets; the hooks of the pillars and their [fn]bands were of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:9 - ‘These you may eat, whatever is in the water: all that have fins and scales, those in the water, in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:10 - ‘But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:18 - “On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim by their armies, and the leader of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:23 - The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the [fn]tabernacle westward,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:6 - “When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are pitched on the south side shall set out; an alarm is to be blown for them to set out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:22 - “Should flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Or should all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:31 - Now there went forth a wind from the LORD and it brought quail from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp and [fn]about two [fn]cubits deep on the surface of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29 - “Amalek is living in the land of the Negev and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill country, and the Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side of the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - “Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; turn tomorrow and set out to the wilderness by the way of the [fn]Red Sea.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:4 - Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the [fn]Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the [fn]people became impatient because of the journey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:8 - They journeyed [fn]from before Hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness; and they went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:10 - They journeyed from Elim and camped by the [fn]Red Sea.

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