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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, , -όν, red; from Homer down; in the N. T. only in the phrase 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.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - The LORD responded by shifting the wind, and the strong west wind blew the locusts into the Red Sea.[fn] Not a single locust remained in all the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - So God led them in a roundabout way through the wilderness toward the Red Sea.[fn] Thus the Israelites left Egypt like an army ready for battle.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:4 - Pharaoh’s chariots and army
he has hurled into the sea.
The finest of Pharaoh’s officers
are drowned in the Red Sea.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - Then Moses led the people of Israel away from the Red Sea, and they moved out into the desert of Shur. They traveled in this desert for three days without finding any water.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - And I will fix your boundaries from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea,[fn] and from the eastern wilderness to the Euphrates River.[fn] I will hand over to you the people now living in the land, and you will drive them out ahead of you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - Now turn around, and don’t go on toward the land where the Amalekites and Canaanites live. Tomorrow you must set out for the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:4 - Then the people of Israel set out from Mount Hor, taking the road to the Red Sea[fn] to go around the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient with the long journey,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:10 - They left Elim and camped beside the Red Sea.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11 - They left the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 - These are the words that Moses spoke to all the people of Israel while they were in the wilderness east of the Jordan River. They were camped in the Jordan Valley[fn] near Suph, between Paran on one side and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab on the other.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40 - As for you, turn around now and go on back through the wilderness toward the Red Sea.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 - “Then we turned around and headed back across the wilderness toward the Red Sea,[fn] just as the LORD had instructed me, and we wandered around in the region of Mount Seir for a long time.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4 - They didn’t see what the LORD did to the armies of Egypt and to their horses and chariots—how he drowned them in the Red Sea[fn] as they were chasing you. He destroyed them, and they have not recovered to this very day!
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 - For we have heard how the LORD made a dry path for you through the Red Sea[fn] when you left Egypt. And we know what you did to Sihon and Og, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan River, whose people you completely destroyed.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23 - For the LORD your God dried up the river right before your eyes, and he kept it dry until you were all across, just as he did at the Red Sea[fn] when he dried it up until we had all crossed over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:6 - But when your ancestors arrived at the Red Sea,[fn] the Egyptians chased after you with chariots and charioteers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16 - When the people of Israel arrived at Kadesh on their journey from Egypt after crossing the Red Sea,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:9 - “You saw the misery of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their cries from beside the Red Sea.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:7 - Our ancestors in Egypt
were not impressed by the LORD’s miraculous deeds.
They soon forgot his many acts of kindness to them.
Instead, they rebelled against him at the Red Sea.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9 - He commanded the Red Sea[fn] to dry up.
He led Israel across the sea as if it were a desert.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:22 - such wonderful things in the land of Ham,
such awesome deeds at the Red Sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:13 - Give thanks to him who parted the Red Sea.[fn]
His faithful love endures forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:15 - but he hurled Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea.
His faithful love endures forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:2 - Why are your clothes so red,
as if you have been treading out grapes?
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