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Lexicon :: Strong's G2063 - erythros

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ἐρυθρός
Transliteration
erythros (Key)
Pronunciation
er-oo-thros'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain affinity
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Strong’s Definitions

ἐρυθρός erythrós, er-oo-thros'; of uncertain affinity; red, i.e. (with G2281) the Red Sea:—red.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G2063 in the following manner: Red (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G2063 in the following manner: Red (2x).

  1. the Red Sea

    1. the Indian Ocean washing the shores of Arabia and Persia, with its two gulfs, of which the one on the east is called the Persian Gulf, the other on the opposite side the Arabian. In the NT the phrase denotes the upper part of the Arabian Gulf (the Heropolitie Gulf, so called [i.e. the Gulf of Suez]), through which the Israelites made their passage out of Egypt to the shore of Arabia.

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐρυθρός erythrós, er-oo-thros'; of uncertain affinity; red, i.e. (with G2281) the Red Sea:—red.
STRONGS G2063:
ἐρυθρός, -ά, -όν, red; from Homer down; in the N. T. only in the phrase ἡ ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσα the Red Sea (from Herodotus down [cf. Rawlinson's Herod. vol. i., p. 143]), i. e. the Indian Ocean washing the shores of Arabia and Persia, with its two gulfs, of which the one lying on the east is called the Persian Gulf, the other on the opposite side the Arabian. In the N. T. the phrase denotes the upper part of the Arabian Gulf (the Heroopolite Gulf, so called [i. e. Gulf of Suez]), through which the Israelites made their passage out of Egypt to the shore of Arabia: Acts 7:36; Hebrews 11:29. (Sept. for יַם־סוּף, the sea of sedge or sea-weed [cf. B. D. as below]. Cf. Win. RWB under the word Meer rothes; Pressel in Herzog ix., p. 239ff; >Furrer in Schenkel iv. 150ff; [B. D., see under the words, Red Sea and Red Sea, Passage of; Trumbull, Kadesh-Barnea, p. 352ff].)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
7:36
Hebrews
11:29

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2063 matches the Greek ἐρυθρός (erythros),
which occurs 25 times in 24 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And the Lord brought in the opposite direction a strong wind from the sea, and took up the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea, and there was not one locust left in all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - And God led the people round by the way to the wilderness, to the Red Sea: and in the fifth generation the children of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:4 - He has cast the chariots of Pharao and his host into the sea, the chosen mounted captains: they were swallowed up in the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - So Moses brought up the children of Israel from the Red Sea, and brought them into the wilderness of Sur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water to drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - And I will set thy borders from the Red Sea, to the sea of the Phylistines, and from the wilderness to the great river Euphrates; and I will give into your hand those that dwell in the land, and will cast them out from thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - But Amalec and the Chananite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn and depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:4 - And having departed from mount Or by the way leading to the Red Sea, they compassed the land of Edom, and the people lost courage by the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:10 - And they departed from Ælim, and encamped by the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11 - And they departed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 - These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side Jordan in the desert towards the west near the Red Sea, between Pharan Tophol, and Lobon, and Aulon, and the gold works.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40 - And ye turned and marched into the wilderness, in the way by the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 - And we turned and departed into the wilderness, by the way of the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and we compassed mount Seir many days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4 - and what he did to the host of the Egyptians, and to their chariots, and their cavalry, and their host; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overwhelm the face of them as they pursued after you, and the Lord destroyed them until this day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 - For we have heard that the Lord God dried up the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of the land of Egypt, and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, to Seon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23 - when the Lord our God had dried up the water of Jordan from before them, until they had passed over; as the Lord our God did to the Red Sea, which the Lord our God dried up from before us, until we passed over.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:6 - And afterwards God brought out our fathers from Egypt, and ye entered into the Red Sea; and the Egyptians pursued after our fathers with chariots and horses into the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16 - for in their going up out of Egypt Israel went in the wilderness as far as the sea of Siph, and came to Cades.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:9 - And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and thou heardest their cry at the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:7 - (LXX 105:7) Our fathers in Egypt understood not thy wonders, and remembered not the multitude of thy mercy; but provoked him as they went up by the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9 - (LXX 105:9) And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep as through the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:22 - (LXX 105:22) wondrous works in the land of Cham, and terrible things at the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:13 - (LXX 135:13) To him who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endures for ever:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:15 - (LXX 135:15) and overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy endures for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:2 - Wherefore are thy garments red, and thy raiment as if fresh from a trodden wine-press?
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