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Lexicon :: Strong's G2281 - thalassa

Aa
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 - And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:22

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26 - And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:2 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens; with all wherewith the ground teemeth, and all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 - And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - And Jehovah said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:3 - All these joined together in the vale of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:12 - And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And Jehovah turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the border of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - but God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:2 - Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon: over against it shall ye encamp by the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:9 - And the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal-zephon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:16 - And lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:21 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:22 - And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:23 - And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:26 - And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:27 - And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and Jehovah overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:28 - And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; there remained not so much as one of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:29 - But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:30 - Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea-shore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:1 - Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto Jehovah, and spake, saying,
I will sing unto Jehovah, for he hath triumphed gloriously:
The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:4 -
Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea;
And his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8 -
And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were piled up,
The floods stood upright as a heap;
The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:10 -
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them:
They sank as lead in the mighty waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:19 - For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:21 - And Miriam answered them,
Sing ye to Jehovah, for he hath triumphed gloriously;
The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - And Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:11 - for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand: and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:22 - And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:27 - and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the hinder part westward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:12 - And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:12 - And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:9 - These may ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that may ye eat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:10 - And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination unto you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:18 - On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:23 - The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:6 - And when ye blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:22 - Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:31 - And there went forth a wind from Jehovah, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29 - Amalek dwelleth in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanite dwelleth by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:4 - And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:8 - And they journeyed from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.

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

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