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The Hebrews gave the name of sea to all great collections of water, to great lakes or pools. Thus the sea of Galilee, or of Tiberias, or of Cinnereth, is no other than the lake of Tiberias, or Gennesareth, in Galilee. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H3220, H3221, G2281, G3989, H8415
Hebrew
יָם · yâm
Greek
θάλασσα · thalassa

Strong’s and original-language information

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

יָם

H3220
Transliteration
yâm
Pronunciation
yawm
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
396

Glosses

sea, sea ([idiom] -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).

Lexicon definition

a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water

specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea

sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin

locally, the west, or (rarely) the south

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

יַם

H3221
Transliteration
yâm
Pronunciation
yawm
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
2

Glosses

sea, sea.

Lexicon definition

{a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water

specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea

sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin

locally, the west, or (rarely) the south}

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

θάλασσα

G2281
Transliteration
thalassa
Language
Greek
Part of speech
G:N-F
Indexed occurrences
90

Glosses

sea

Lexicon definition

θάλασσα, -ης, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for יָם ;] the sea: Mat.23:15, Mrk.11:23, Luk.21:25, Rom.9:27, Heb.11:12, Jas.1:6, Ju 13, Rev.7:1, al.; τὸ πέλαγος τῆς θ. (see Tr., ut infr.), Mat.18:6; ὁ οὐρανὸς κ. ἡ γῆ κ. ἡ θ., of the whole world, Act.4:24, al. (Hag.2:7); θ. ὑαλίνη, Rev.4:6 15:2; of the Mediterranean, Act.10:6, 32 17:14; of the Red Sea, ἐρυθρὰ θ., Act.7:36, 1Co.10:1-2, Heb.11:20; of an inland lake (as Heb. יָם), θ. τ. Γαλιλαίας, Mat.4:18 15:29, Mrk.1:16 7:31; τ. Τιβεριάδος, Jhn.21:1; τ. Γ. τ. T., Jhn.6:1; of the same, simply ἡ θ., Mat.4:15, Mrk.2:13, al SYN.: πέλαγος, the vast expanse of open water"; θ., "the sea as contrasted with the land" (Tr., Syn., xiii) (AS)

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

πέλαγος

G3989
Transliteration
pelagos
Language
Greek
Part of speech
G:N-N
Indexed occurrences
2

Glosses

sea, depth, sea

Lexicon definition

πέλαγος, -ους, τό [in LXX: 2Ma.5:21, 4Ma.7:1 * ;] the deep sea, the deep, the sea: Act.27:5; τὸ π. τῆς θαλάσσης, Mat.18:6 SYN.: θαλάσσα (which see); and cf. ἄβυσσος (AS)

A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament

Θάλασσα

G2281
Transliteration
thálassa
Language
Greek
Indexed occurrences
90

Glosses

sea

Lexicon definition

the sea, Mat. 23.15. Mar. 9.42; a sea, Ac. 7.36; an inland sea, lake, Mat. 8.24, et al.

A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament

Πέλᾰγος

G3989
Transliteration
pélagos
Language
Greek
Indexed occurrences
2

Glosses

depth, sea

Lexicon definition

the deep, the open sea, Mat. 18.6; a sea, contra distinguished from the sea in general and named from an adjacent country, Ac. 27.5.

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

תְּהוֹם

H8415
Transliteration
tᵉhôwm
Pronunciation
teh-home'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
36

Glosses

deep, sea, abyss, deep (place), depth.

Lexicon definition

an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean watersupply)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

יָם

H3221
Transliteration
yâm
Pronunciation
yawm
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
2

Glosses

sea.

Lexicon definition

{a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water

specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea

sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin

locally, the west, or (rarely) the south}

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

יָם

H3220
Transliteration
yâm
Pronunciation
yawm
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
396

Glosses

sea ([idiom] -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).

Lexicon definition

a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water

specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea

sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin

locally, the west, or (rarely) the south

Complete dictionary entries

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

SEA

The Hebrews gave the name of sea to all great collections of water, to great lakes or pools. Thus the sea of Galilee, or of Tiberias, or of Cinnereth, is no other than the lake of Tiberias, or Gennesareth, in Galilee. The Dead Sea, the sea of the Wilderness, the sea of the East, the sea of Sodom, the sea of Salt, or the Salt Sea, the sea of Asphaltites, or of bitumen, is no other than the lake of Sodom. The Arabians and orientals in general frequently gave the name of sea to great rivers, as the Nile, the Euphrates, the Tigris, and others, which, by their magnitude, and by the extent of their overflowings, seemed as little seas, or great lakes. In Isa. xi, 15, these words particularly apply to the Nile at the Delta.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Sea

Indexed occurrences: 380

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Strong's Concordance

Seas

Indexed occurrences: 24

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All Scripture references383 references

Genesis 19

Genesis 1:2Genesis 1:9Genesis 1:10Genesis 1:21Genesis 1:22Genesis 1:26Genesis 1:28Genesis 7:11Genesis 8:2Genesis 9:2Genesis 12:8Genesis 13:14Genesis 14:3Genesis 22:17Genesis 28:14Genesis 32:13Genesis 41:49Genesis 49:13Genesis 49:25

Exodus 29

Exodus 10:19Exodus 13:18Exodus 14:2Exodus 14:9Exodus 14:16Exodus 14:21Exodus 14:22Exodus 14:23Exodus 14:26Exodus 14:27Exodus 14:28Exodus 14:29Exodus 14:30Exodus 15:1Exodus 15:4Exodus 15:5Exodus 15:8Exodus 15:10Exodus 15:19Exodus 15:21Exodus 15:22Exodus 20:11Exodus 23:31Exodus 26:22Exodus 26:27Exodus 27:12Exodus 36:27Exodus 36:32Exodus 38:12

Leviticus 2

Leviticus 11:9Leviticus 11:10

Numbers 17

Numbers 2:18Numbers 3:23Numbers 11:22Numbers 11:31Numbers 13:29Numbers 14:25Numbers 21:4Numbers 33:8Numbers 33:10Numbers 33:11Numbers 34:3Numbers 34:5Numbers 34:6Numbers 34:7Numbers 34:11Numbers 34:12Numbers 35:5

Deuteronomy 14

Deuteronomy 1:7Deuteronomy 1:40Deuteronomy 2:1Deuteronomy 3:17Deuteronomy 3:27Deuteronomy 4:49Deuteronomy 8:7Deuteronomy 11:4Deuteronomy 11:24Deuteronomy 30:13Deuteronomy 33:13Deuteronomy 33:19Deuteronomy 33:23Deuteronomy 34:2

Joshua 41

Joshua 1:4Joshua 2:10Joshua 3:16Joshua 4:23Joshua 5:1Joshua 8:9Joshua 8:12Joshua 8:13Joshua 9:1Joshua 11:2Joshua 11:3Joshua 11:4Joshua 12:3Joshua 12:7Joshua 13:27Joshua 15:2Joshua 15:4Joshua 15:5Joshua 15:8Joshua 15:10Joshua 15:11Joshua 15:12Joshua 15:46Joshua 15:47Joshua 16:3Joshua 16:6Joshua 16:8Joshua 17:9Joshua 17:10Joshua 18:12Joshua 18:14Joshua 18:15Joshua 18:19Joshua 19:11Joshua 19:26Joshua 19:29Joshua 19:34Joshua 22:7Joshua 23:4Joshua 24:6Joshua 24:7

Judges 3

Judges 5:17Judges 7:12Judges 11:16

1 Samuel 1

1 Samuel 13:5

2 Samuel 2

2 Samuel 17:112 Samuel 22:16

1 Kings 13

1 Kings 4:201 Kings 5:91 Kings 5:231 Kings 7:231 Kings 7:241 Kings 7:251 Kings 7:391 Kings 7:441 Kings 9:261 Kings 9:271 Kings 10:221 Kings 18:431 Kings 18:44

2 Kings 4

2 Kings 14:252 Kings 16:172 Kings 25:132 Kings 25:16

1 Chronicles 3

1 Chronicles 9:241 Chronicles 16:321 Chronicles 18:8

2 Chronicles 10

2 Chronicles 2:152 Chronicles 4:22 Chronicles 4:32 Chronicles 4:42 Chronicles 4:62 Chronicles 4:102 Chronicles 4:152 Chronicles 8:172 Chronicles 8:182 Chronicles 20:2

Ezra 1

Ezra 3:7

Nehemiah 3

Nehemiah 9:6Nehemiah 9:9Nehemiah 9:11

Esther 1

Esther 10:1

Job 14

Job 6:3Job 7:12Job 9:8Job 11:9Job 12:8Job 14:11Job 26:12Job 28:14Job 36:30Job 38:8Job 38:16Job 38:30Job 41:23Job 41:24

Psalms 49

Psalms 8:8Psalms 8:9Psalms 24:2Psalms 33:7Psalms 36:7Psalms 42:8Psalms 46:2Psalms 46:3Psalms 65:5Psalms 65:6Psalms 65:7Psalms 65:8Psalms 66:6Psalms 68:23Psalms 69:34Psalms 69:35Psalms 71:20Psalms 72:8Psalms 74:13Psalms 77:17Psalms 77:20Psalms 78:13Psalms 78:15Psalms 78:27Psalms 78:53Psalms 80:12Psalms 89:10Psalms 89:26Psalms 93:3Psalms 93:4Psalms 95:5Psalms 96:11Psalms 98:7Psalms 104:6Psalms 104:25Psalms 106:7Psalms 106:9Psalms 106:22Psalms 107:3Psalms 107:23Psalms 107:26Psalms 114:3Psalms 114:5Psalms 135:6Psalms 136:13Psalms 136:15Psalms 139:9Psalms 146:6Psalms 148:7

Proverbs 7

Proverbs 3:20Proverbs 8:24Proverbs 8:27Proverbs 8:28Proverbs 8:29Proverbs 23:34Proverbs 30:19

Ecclesiastes 1

Ecclesiastes 1:7

Isaiah 30

Isaiah 5:30Isaiah 8:23Isaiah 10:22Isaiah 10:26Isaiah 11:9Isaiah 11:11Isaiah 11:14Isaiah 11:15Isaiah 16:8Isaiah 17:12Isaiah 18:2Isaiah 19:5Isaiah 21:1Isaiah 23:2Isaiah 23:4Isaiah 23:11Isaiah 24:14Isaiah 24:15Isaiah 27:1Isaiah 42:10Isaiah 43:16Isaiah 48:18Isaiah 49:12Isaiah 50:2Isaiah 51:10Isaiah 51:15Isaiah 57:20Isaiah 60:5Isaiah 63:11Isaiah 63:13

Jeremiah 17

Jeremiah 5:22Jeremiah 6:23Jeremiah 15:8Jeremiah 25:22Jeremiah 27:19Jeremiah 31:35Jeremiah 33:22Jeremiah 46:18Jeremiah 47:7Jeremiah 48:32Jeremiah 49:21Jeremiah 49:23Jeremiah 50:42Jeremiah 51:36Jeremiah 51:42Jeremiah 52:17Jeremiah 52:20

Lamentations 1

Lamentations 2:13

Ezekiel 55

Ezekiel 25:16Ezekiel 26:3Ezekiel 26:5Ezekiel 26:16Ezekiel 26:17Ezekiel 26:18Ezekiel 26:19Ezekiel 27:3Ezekiel 27:4Ezekiel 27:9Ezekiel 27:25Ezekiel 27:26Ezekiel 27:27Ezekiel 27:29Ezekiel 27:32Ezekiel 27:33Ezekiel 27:34Ezekiel 28:2Ezekiel 28:8Ezekiel 31:4Ezekiel 31:15Ezekiel 32:2Ezekiel 38:20Ezekiel 39:11Ezekiel 41:12Ezekiel 42:19Ezekiel 45:7Ezekiel 46:19Ezekiel 47:8Ezekiel 47:10Ezekiel 47:15Ezekiel 47:17Ezekiel 47:18Ezekiel 47:19Ezekiel 47:20Ezekiel 48:1Ezekiel 48:2Ezekiel 48:3Ezekiel 48:4Ezekiel 48:5Ezekiel 48:6Ezekiel 48:7Ezekiel 48:8Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:16Ezekiel 48:17Ezekiel 48:18Ezekiel 48:21Ezekiel 48:23Ezekiel 48:24Ezekiel 48:25Ezekiel 48:26Ezekiel 48:27Ezekiel 48:28Ezekiel 48:34

Daniel 4

Daniel 7:2Daniel 7:3Daniel 8:4Daniel 11:45

Hosea 3

Hosea 2:1Hosea 4:3Hosea 11:10

Joel 1

Joel 2:20

Amos 5

Amos 5:8Amos 7:4Amos 8:12Amos 9:3Amos 9:6

Jonah 10

Jonah 1:4Jonah 1:5Jonah 1:9Jonah 1:11Jonah 1:12Jonah 1:13Jonah 1:15Jonah 2:3Jonah 2:4Jonah 2:6

Micah 2

Micah 7:12Micah 7:19

Nahum 2

Nahum 1:4Nahum 3:8

Habakkuk 5

Habakkuk 1:14Habakkuk 2:14Habakkuk 3:8Habakkuk 3:10Habakkuk 3:15

Zephaniah 3

Zephaniah 1:3Zephaniah 2:5Zephaniah 2:6

Haggai 1

Haggai 2:6

Zechariah 5

Zechariah 9:4Zechariah 9:10Zechariah 10:11Zechariah 14:4Zechariah 14:8

Matthew 2

Matthew 8:24Matthew 14:25

Mark 1

Mark 4:37

Revelation 2

Revelation 4:6Revelation 20:13

Topical Bible

Nave's Topical Bible

SEAS

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Cormorant

(Lev. 11:17; Deut. 14:17), Heb. shalak, "plunging," or "darting down," (the Phalacrocorax carbo), ranked among the "unclean" birds; of the same family group as the pelican. It is a "plunging" bird, and is common on the coasts and the island seas of Palestine. Some think the Hebrew word should be rendered "gannet" (Sula bassana, "the solan goose"); others that it is the "tern" or "sea swallow," which also frequents the coasts of Palestine as well as the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan valley during several months of the year. But there is no reason to depart from the ordinary rendering. In Isa. 34:11, Zeph. 2:14 (but in R.V., "pelican") the Hebrew word rendered by this name is ka'ath. It is translated "pelican" (q.v.) in Ps. 102:6. The word literally means the "vomiter," and the pelican is so called from its vomiting the shells and other things which it has voraciously swallowed. (See [127]PELICAN.)

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