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Lexicon :: Strong's G2063 - erythros

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19

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

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 15:4

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 15:22

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 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 BoxNum 14:25

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 33:10

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11 - And they journeyed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 - These are the words which Moses spake unto all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40 - But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 - Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Jehovah spake unto me; and we compassed mount Seir many days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4 - and what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Jehovah hath destroyed them unto this day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 - For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, unto Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23 - For Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as Jehovah your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were passed over;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:6 - And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen unto the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16 - but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:9 - And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:7 -
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt;
They remembered not the multitude of thy lovingkindnesses,
But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9 -
He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up:
So he led them through the depths, as through a wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:22 -
Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
And terrible things by the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:13 -
To him that divided the Red Sea in sunder;
For his lovingkindness endureth for ever;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:15 -
But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea;
For his lovingkindness endureth for ever:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:2 - Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat?
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