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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 26 times in 24 verses in 'Isa' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:16 - Against all the ships of Tarshish
And against all the beautiful craft.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:30 - And it will growl over it in that day like the roaring of the sea.
If one looks to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress;
Even the light is darkened by its clouds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:1 - [fn]But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish; in earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the [fn]Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:22 - For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea,
Only a remnant within them will return;
A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:26 - The LORD of hosts will arouse a scourge against him like the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the sea and He will lift it up the way He did in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:9 - They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD
As the waters cover the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:14 - They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the west;
Together they will plunder the sons of the east;
[fn]They will possess Edom and Moab,
And the sons of Ammon will be [fn]subject to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15 - And the LORD will [fn]utterly destroy
The tongue of the [fn]Sea of Egypt;
And He will wave His hand over the [fn]River
With His scorching wind;
And He will strike it into seven streams
And make men walk over [fn]dry-shod.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:12 - Alas, the uproar of many peoples
Who roar like the roaring of the seas,
And the rumbling of nations
Who rush on like the rumbling of mighty waters!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:2 - Which sends envoys by the sea,
Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters.
Go, swift messengers, to a nation [fn]tall and smooth,
To a people feared [fn]far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation
Whose land the rivers divide.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:5 - The waters from the sea will dry up,
And the river will be parched and dry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:2 - Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland,
You merchants of Sidon;
[fn]Your messengers crossed the sea

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 - Be ashamed, O Sidon;
For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying,
“I have neither travailed nor given birth,
I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:11 - He has stretched His hand out over the sea,
He has made the kingdoms tremble;
The LORD has given a command concerning Canaan to demolish its strongholds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:14 - They raise their voices, they shout for joy;
They cry out from the [fn]west concerning the majesty of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:15 - Therefore glorify the LORD in the [fn]east,
The name of the LORD, the God of Israel,
In the [fn]coastlands of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:10 - Sing to the LORD a new song,
Sing His praise from the end of the earth!
You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it.
You islands, and those who dwell on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:16 - Thus says the LORD,
Who makes a way through the sea
And a path through the mighty waters,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:18 - “If only you had paid attention to My commandments!
Then your [fn]well-being would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:12 - “Behold, these will come from afar;
And lo, these will come from the north and from the west,
And these from the land of Sinim.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 50:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:2 - “Why was there no man when I came?
When I called, why was there none to answer?
Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke,
I make the rivers a wilderness;
Their fish stink for lack of water
And die of thirst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10 - Was it not You who dried up the sea,
The waters of the great deep;
Who made the depths of the sea a pathway
For the redeemed to cross over?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:15 - “For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea and its waves roar (the LORD of hosts is His name).

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:5 - “Then you will see and be radiant,
And your heart will [fn]thrill and rejoice;
Because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you,
The wealth of the nations will come to you.
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