Strong's Concordance thalassa: the sea Original Word: θάλασσα, ης, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: thalassa Phonetic Spelling: (thal'-as-sah) Short Definition: the sea, lake Definition: (a) the sea, in contrast to the land, (b) a particular sea or lake, e.g. the sea of Galilee (Tiberias), the Red Sea. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2281: θάλασσαθάλασσα (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); 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). Probably prolonged from hals; the sea (genitive case or specially) -- sea. see GREEK hals Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 228191 Occurrences θάλασσα — 6 Occ. θάλασσαν — 43 Occ. θαλάσσῃ — 13 Occ. θαλάσσης — 29 Occ. Matthew 4:15 N-GFS GRK: Νεφθαλίμ ὁδὸν θαλάσσης πέραν τοῦ NAS: BY THE WAY OF THE SEA, BEYOND KJV: [by] the way of the sea, beyond INT: of Naphtali way of [the] sea beyond the Matthew 4:18 N-AFS Matthew 4:18 N-AFS Matthew 8:24 N-DFS Matthew 8:26 N-DFS Matthew 8:27 N-NFS Matthew 8:32 N-AFS Matthew 13:1 N-AFS Matthew 13:47 N-AFS Matthew 14:25 N-AFS Matthew 14:26 N-GFS Matthew 15:29 N-AFS Matthew 17:27 N-AFS Matthew 18:6 N-GFS Matthew 21:21 N-AFS Matthew 23:15 N-AFS Mark 1:16 N-AFS Mark 1:16 N-DFS Mark 2:13 N-AFS Mark 3:7 N-AFS Mark 4:1 N-AFS Mark 4:1 N-DFS Mark 4:1 N-AFS Mark 4:39 N-DFS Mark 4:41 N-NFS |
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