2001 Translation

THALASSĒS, thalassēs

Sounds Like: tha-LAS-sees

Translations: of the sea, of a sea

From the root: ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a large body of salt water, such as an ocean or a sea. It is often used to describe the physical body of water, but can also be used metaphorically to represent vastness, chaos, or the Gentile world in some contexts. It is typically used in a possessive sense, indicating something belonging to or related to the sea.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine

Strong’s number: G2281 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 32:2, 97:7

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:114, 1:301

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 4:5, 6:12

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 20:6

Codex Sinaiticus

• Deuteronomy — 3:17, 30:13
• Joshua — 12:3, 13:27
• Judges — 7:12
• 2 Esdras — 19:11
• Esther — 10:1
• 1 Maccabees — 8:32, 11:1, 14:5, 14:34, 15:1, 15:11, 15:14
• Psalms — 8:9, 32:7, 64:8, 67:23, 68:3, 71:8, 79:12, 88:10, 92:4, 105:22, 106:3, 138:9
• Proverbs — 23:34
• Job — 9:8, 11:9, 12:8, 36:30, 38:16, 41:22
• Wisdom — 5:22, 19:7, 19:12
• Sirach — 18:10, 24:6, 24:29, 29:17, 44:21, 50:3
• Isaiah — 2:16, 5:30, 10:22, 23:4, 24:14, 24:15, 48:18, 48:19, 49:12, 51:10, 60:5
• Jeremiah — 22:20, 30:15, 32:22, 52:20
• Jonah — 2:4
• Habakkuk — 1:14
• Zephaniah — 1:3, 2:5, 2:7
• Zechariah — 9:10
• Matthew — 4:15, 14:24, 14:26, 18:6
• Mark — 5:1, 6:47, 6:48, 6:49
• Luke — 21:25
• John — 6:1, 6:17, 6:19, 6:22, 6:25, 21:1
• Acts of the Apostles — 28:4
• Romans — 9:27
• 1 Corinthians — 10:1
• Hebrews — 11:12
• James — 1:6
• Jude — 1:13
• Revelation — 7:1, 8:8, 10:2, 10:5, 10:8, 12:18, 13:1, 16:3, 20:8
• Epistle of Barnabas — 6:12

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Romans — 5:1

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 12:60, 12:68

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 7:156
• Book 2 — 10:240, 15:315, 16:347
• Book 3 — 1:18, 5:86, 5:87, 5:88
• Book 4 — 3:40, 3:45, 6:125
• Book 5 — 1:82
• Book 6 — 7:140
• Book 8 — 6:163
• Book 9 — 10:210, 10:217
• Book 12 — 2:103
• Book 13 — 15:390
• Book 14 — 12:310
• Book 15 — 9:335
• Book 17 — 9:219
• Book 19 — 1:1, 1:6, 1:81

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 33:15
• Book Two — 16:26, 16:42, 16:50
• Book Three — 3:19, 9:16
• Book Four — 10:23
• Book Five — 5:35
• Book Six — 1:43

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 3:1, 13:1, 34:4, 62:1, 112:1, 120:2, 131:3, 138:2

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 4:6, 5:2, 10:8, 10:9

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 1:26, 1:28, 9:2, 22:17, 28:14, 32:12, 41:49
• Exodus — 10:19, 14:2, 14:16, 14:22, 14:23, 14:27, 14:29, 14:30, 15:8, 15:19, 15:22, 23:31
• Numbers — 11:22, 11:31, 33:8, 33:11, 34:3, 34:6, 34:7, 34:11
• Deuteronomy — 1:40, 3:17, 11:4, 11:24, 30:13, 33:19, 34:2
• Joshua — 1:4, 8:9, 8:12, 9:1, 11:4, 12:3, 13:7, 13:27, 15:2, 15:5, 15:8, 15:12, 18:19, 19:46, 23:4
• Judges — 7:12, 11:16
• 2 Samuel — 17:11, 22:16
• 1 Kings — 2:46, 7:13, 7:30, 9:26, 18:43
• 2 Kings — 14:25
• 2 Chronicles — 20:2
• Ezra (Alpha) — 4:15
• Nehemiah — 9:11
• Esther — 10:1
• 1 Maccabees — 8:32, 11:1, 14:5, 14:34, 15:1, 15:14
• 2 Maccabees — 9:8
• 3 Maccabees — 2:7, 7:20
• Psalms — 8:9, 32:7, 64:8, 67:23, 68:3, 71:8, 79:12, 88:10, 92:4, 105:22, 106:3, 138:9
• Psalms of Solomon — 2:30, 2:33
• Odes — 1:8, 1:19, 5:4, 8:9, 9:36
• Proverbs — 23:34
• Job — 9:8, 11:9, 12:8, 36:30, 38:16, 41:21
• Wisdom — 5:22, 19:7, 19:12
• Sirach — 18:10, 24:6, 24:29, 29:18, 44:21, 50:3
• Isaiah — 2:16, 5:30, 10:22, 23:4, 24:14, 24:15, 48:18, 49:12, 51:10, 60:5, 63:11
• Jeremiah — 15:8, 22:20, 29:22, 32:8, 52:20
• Baruch — 3:30
• Ezekiel — 26:5, 26:12, 26:16, 26:17, 27:3, 27:4, 27:9, 27:25, 27:26, 27:27, 27:29, 27:33, 28:2, 28:8, 38:20, 42:18, 47:10, 47:15, 47:17, 47:20, 48:28
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 3:36, 7:3
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 2:38, 3:36, 7:3, 10:6
• Hosea — 1:10, 4:3
• Amos — 5:8, 8:12, 9:3, 9:6
• Micah — 7:12, 7:19
• Jonah — 2:4
• Habakkuk — 1:14
• Zephaniah — 1:3, 2:5, 2:7
• Zechariah — 9:10
• Enoch — 32:2

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 4:15, 14:24, 14:26, 18:6
• Mark — 5:1, 6:47, 6:48, 6:49
• Luke — 21:25
• John — 6:1, 6:17, 6:19, 6:22, 6:25, 21:1
• Acts — 28:4
• Romans — 9:27
• 1 Corinthians — 10:1
• Hebrews — 11:12
• James — 1:6
• Jude — 1:13
• Revelation — 5:13, 7:1, 8:8, 10:2, 10:5, 10:8, 12:18, 13:1, 20:8

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΑΛΑΣΣΑΙΣ — seas, the seas
• ΘΑΛ — sea, a sea, lake, a lake
• ΘΑΛΑ — sea, the sea, a sea
• ΘΑΛΑΣΣ — sea, a sea, lake, an ocean, the sea, (to) the sea, (of) the sea
• ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑ — sea, a sea
• ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑΙ — seas, the seas
• ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑΙΣ — seas, the seas
• ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑΝ — sea, a sea
• ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑΣ — seas, of seas
• ΘΑΛΑΣΣΗ — sea, a sea, (to) the sea, (in) the sea
• ΘΑΛΑΣΣΘΗΣ — sea, the sea, a sea, lake
• ΘΑΛΑΣΣΙΑΝ — maritime, of the sea, a maritime (thing), a thing of the sea
• ΘΑΛΑΣΣΩ — to be in the sea, to be at sea, to be like the sea, to be full of the sea
• ΘΑΛΑΣΣΩΝ — of seas, of the sea
• ΘΑΛΑΤΤΑΝ — sea, a sea, lake, a lake
• ΘΑΛΑΤΤΑΝΤΑΣ — seas
• ΘΑΛΑΤΤΗ — (to) sea, (to) a sea, (to) lake, (to) a lake
• ΘΑΛΑΤΤΗΣ — of the sea, of a sea, of the lake, of a lake
• ΘΑΛΛΑΣΣΗ — sea, the sea, a sea
• ΛΑΣΣΑ — sea, the sea, a sea
• ΛΑΣΣΑΙΣ — (to) seas, (to) the seas

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