Word

θάλασσα

thálassa · G2281 · Greek · 91 occurrences

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Place

Red Seafirst named in Exodus 10:1926 verses

Meanings

the sea

A generic collective term for all bodies of water (in this sense θάλασσα is contrasted with the sky and the land)

Examples
Matthew 18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it is better for him that a heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and that he be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Matthew 21:21 And Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it will happen.
Matthew 23:15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
sea, lake

A particular body of water, normally rather large

Examples
Matthew 4:15 “THE LAND OF ZEBULUN AND THE LAND OF NAPHTALI, BY THE WAY OF THE SEA, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE JORDAN, GALILEE OF THE GENTILES—
Matthew 4:18 Now as Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon, who was called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
Matthew 8:24 And behold, a violent storm developed on the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves; but Jesus Himself was asleep.

How it’s used In 10 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

6 occurrences in 2 groups

ΓαλιλαίαGalilee 5
ΤιβεριάςTiberias 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

5 occurrences in 3 groups

ὑάλινοςof glass 3
ἐρυθρόςred 2
ὅμοιοςlike 1

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

κτίσμαcreation 1
ψυχήlife, soul 1

What it doesIt is the subject

6 occurrences in 5 groups

ὑπακούωto obey 2
δίδωμιto give, to grant 1
διεγείρωto cause to wake up 1
εἰμίto be 1
μίγνυμιto mix 1

What is done to itIt is the object

9 occurrences in 7 groups

ποιέωto do, to make 3
ἀδικέωto harm 2
διαβαίνωto cross over 1
ἐγείρωto raise, to get up 1
ἐπιτιμάωto rebuke 1
κτίζωto create 1

It is given or told toIndirect object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἔπωto say 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

θρόνοςthrone 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ὅςwho, which, that 1
ὄχλοςcrowd, multitude, common people 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

60 occurrences in 9 groups

εἰςto 34
ἐπίon 23
ἐνin 17
παράfrom, with, beside 16
πέρανon the other side of, across 8
ἐκfrom 4
Other words · 2 groups that occur once or twice (4) 4

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

12 occurrences in 10 groups

ἄμμοςsand 3
Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (9) 9

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 2 words

יָם yâm · H3220 · sea, lake, ocean: Hebrew יָם is the direct etymological source and primary translation equivalent of Greek θάλασσα, both denoting “sea” as a body of water, and the Septuagint consistently renders יָם with θάλασσα.
סוּף çûwph · H5488 · flag, Red, weed: סוּף (çûwph, H5488) refers specifically to aquatic vegetation ('reed,' 'weed') or the Red Sea (in the phrase יַם־סוּף, 'Sea of Reeds'), whereas θάλασσα (thálassa, G2281) is the general Greek term for 'sea' that translates the fuller Hebrew phrase when the Red Sea is in view.

Semantic domains 2 entries

The sea1.69: In Matthew 8:24, of the disciples' boat it is written, “a violent storm developed on the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves,” naming this large body of water.
Sea, lake1.70: In Matthew 4:18, it is written, “as Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers,” naming this specific inland lake.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

θάλασσαthálassa · G2281παραθαλάσσιος parathalássios · G3864 · by the seaside, by the lake · 1×

Also from the root θάλασσα

διθάλασσος dithálassos · G1337 · cross-currents, sandbar, reef · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (cf. Buttmann, 7), θαλάσσης, ἡ (akin to ἅλς (better, allied to ταράσσω etc., from its…

(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: Mt 23:15; Mk 11:23; Lk 17:2, Lk 17:6; Lk 21:25; Rom 9:27; 2 Cor 11:26; Heb 11:12; Jas 1:6; Jude 1:13; Rev 7:1-3, etc.; ἐργάζεσθαι τήν θαλασσην (see ἐργάζομαι, 2 a.), Rev 18:17; τό πέλαγος τῆς θαλάσσης (see πέλαγος, a.), Mt 18:6; joined with γῆ and οὐρανός it forms a periphrasis for the whole world, Acts 4:24; Acts 14:15; Rev 5:13; Rev 10:6 (L WH brackets); (Hag 2:7; Ps 145:6; 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: Rev 4:6; Rev 15:2.
b. specifically used (even without the article, cf. Winers Grammar, 121 (115); Buttmann, § 124, 8b.) of the Mediterranean Sea: Acts 10:6, Acts 10:32; Acts 17:14; of the Red Sea (see ἐρυθρός), ἡ ἐρυθρᾷ θάλασσα, Acts 7:36; 1 Cor 10:1; Heb 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. Num 34:11), by Matthew, Mark, and John (nowhere by Luke) of the Lake of Γεννησαρέτ (which see): ἡ θάλασσα τῆς Γαλιλαίας, Mt 4:18; Mt 15:29; Mk 1:16; Mk 7:31 (similarly Lake Constance,derBodensee, is called mare Suebicum, the Suabian Sea); τῆς Τιβεριάδος, Jn 21:1; τῆς Γαλιλαίας τῆς Τιβεριάδος (on which twofold genitive cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 3 N. 3; (Buttmann, 400 (343))), Jn 6:1; more frequently simply ἡ θάλασσα: Mt 4:15, Mt 4:18; Mt 8:24, Mt 8:26f, 32; Mt 13:1, etc.; Mk 2:13; Mk 3:7; Mk 4:1, Mk 4:39; Mk 5:13, etc.; Jn 6:16-19, Jn 6:22, Jn 6:25; Jn 21:7. Cf. Furrer in Schenkel ii. 322ff; (see Γεννησαρέτ).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Bodies of Water91 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0