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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 ground "land" and the gathered waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:22 - God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26 - Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:2 - Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 - Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and worshiped the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, "Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:3 - These last five kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using your name and that of your descendants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:12 - But you said, 'I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:49

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - Joseph stored up a vast amount of grain, like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it because it was impossible to measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - and the LORD turned a very strong west wind, and it picked up the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - So God brought the people around by the way of the desert to the Red Sea, and the Israelites went up from the land of Egypt prepared for battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:2 - "Tell the Israelites that they must turn and camp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; you are to camp by the sea before Baal Zephon opposite it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:9 - The Egyptians chased after them, and all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh and his horsemen and his army overtook them camping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-Zephon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:16 - And as for you, lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:21 - Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the LORD drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:22 - So the Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:23 - The Egyptians chased them and followed them into the middle of the sea - all the horses of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:26 - The LORD said to Moses, "Extend your hand toward the sea, so that the waters may flow back on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:27 - So Moses extended his hand toward the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state when the sun began to rise. Now the Egyptians were fleeing before it, but the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:28 - The water returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh that was coming after the Israelites into the sea - not so much as one of them survived!

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:29 - But the Israelites walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:30 - So the LORD saved Israel on that day from the power of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:1 - Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD. They said, "I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously, the horse and its rider he has thrown into the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:4 - The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he has thrown into the sea, and his chosen officers were drowned in the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8 - By the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing water stood upright like a heap, and the deep waters were solidified in the heart of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:10 - But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:19 - For the horses of Pharaoh came with his chariots and his footmen into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the Israelites walked on dry land in the middle of the sea."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:21 - Miriam sang in response to them, "Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and its rider he has thrown into the sea."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - Then Moses led Israel to journey away from the Red Sea. They went out to the Desert of Shur, walked for three days into the desert, and found no water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:11

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, 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 - And for the back of the tabernacle on the west you will make six frames.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:27 - and five bars for the frames on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames on the back of the tabernacle on the west.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:12 - The width of the court on the west side is to be seventy-five feet with hangings, with their ten posts and their ten bases.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:12 - For the west side there were hangings seventy-five feet long, with their ten posts and their ten bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:9 - "'These you can eat from all creatures that are in the water: Any creatures in the water that have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:10 - But any creatures that do not have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, from all the swarming things of the water and from all the living creatures that are in the water, are detestable to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:18 - "On the west will be the divisions of the camp of Ephraim under their standard. The leader of the people of Ephraim is Elishama son of Amihud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:23 - The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle toward the west.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:6 - And when you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that are located on the south side must begin to travel. An alarm must be sounded for their journeys.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:22 - Would they have enough if the flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:31 - Now a wind went out from the LORD and brought quail from the sea, and let them fall near the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and about a day's journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about three feet high on the surface of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29 - The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan."

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:4 - Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became impatient along the way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:8 - They traveled from Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and camped in Marah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:10 - They traveled from Elim, and camped by the Red Sea.

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