Biblical place
Where was Great Sea?
Biblical place identified in the local geography layer with Mediterranean Sea.
First appears in Exodus 23:31 · 14 books · 24 chapters
Overview
(Heb. yam), signifies (1) “the gathering together of the waters,” the ocean (Gen. 1:10); (2) a river, as the Nile (Isa. 19:5), the Euphrates (Isa. 21:1; Jer. 51:36); (3) the Red Sea. Modern identification: Mediterranean Sea.
Great Sea is represented in the local geography layer as Mediterranean Sea. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Exodus 23:31 and is mentioned across 14 books, with 36 verse references collected into the glossary index.
Key passages
Appears in
8 chapter s · 14 verse mentions
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