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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Sea
• Red Sea
• Mediterranean Sea
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Scofield Reference Index
• Sea
Thompson Chain Reference
• Sea
• Red Sea
• Mediterranean Sea
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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• South Sea Islands & Sumatra
• Red Sea
• Lake/Sea of, Galilee, Tiberias, Chinneroth, Gennesarath
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Torrey Topical Textbook
• Sea, the
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Sea
• Red Sea
• Dead Sea
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Sea of Galilee
• Red Sea
• Dead Sea
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Dead Sea Scrolls
Chabad Knowledge Base
• Song at the Sea
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Tiberias, Sea of
• Sea, the Molten
• Sea, the
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Tiberias, Sea of
• Sea, the Salt
• Sea, Molten
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Sea, Molten
• Sea of the Plain
• Sea of Jazer
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Sodomitish Sea
• Sea-Monster
• Sea of Glass
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Sea of Glass
• Sea of Galilee
• Sea
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King James Dictionary
• Sea
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Tiberias, Sea of
• Sea, the Molten
• Sea, the
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• What a Sea of Tears and Sorrow
• Sea, Red
• Sea, Confession at
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Sea
People's Bible Dictionary
• Sea the Salt
• Sea (2) (4)
• Sea (2) (3)
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Smith Bible Dictionary
• Tiberias The Sea of
• Sea The Salt
• Sea The Molten
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Sea
• Sea
Wilson's Bible Types
• Sea
Webster Dictionary
• Sea-Walled
• Sea-Roving
• Sea-Pen
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Dead Sea
• Red Sea
• Sea
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Adriatic Sea
• Arabian Sea
• Baltic Sea
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Brazen Sea
• Dead Sea, the
• East (Eastern), Sea
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Adriatic Sea
• Dead Sea
• Galilee Sea of
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Adria, or Adriatic Sea
• Brazen Sea
• Brazen Sea (2)
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Apes, Dead Sea
• Aral, the Sea of
• Azov, Sea of
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Dead Sea
• Red Sea
• Sea of Tiberias
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Brazen Sea
• Dead Sea
• Red Sea
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Lexicons
• ܗܰܕ݂ܪܺܝܰܘܣ
• ܝܺܡܳܐ
• ܝܰܡܳܐ‌ܕ݂ܣܽܘܦ݂
Berry's NT Synonyms
• Sea
• ἀνάγω
• διθάλασσος
• ἐκπλέω
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• יָם
• יַם
• סופָּה , סופָּה
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Trench's NT Synonyms
• Sea

Sea. The sea, yam, is used in Scripture to denote -

1. "The gathering of the waters," "the Ocean." Genesis 1:2; Genesis 1:10; Genesis 30:13; etc.

2. Some portion of this, as the Mediterranean Sea, called the "hinder," the "western" and the "utmost" sea, Deuteronomy 11:24; Deuteronomy 34:2; Joel 2:20 "sea of the Philistines," Exodus 23:31 "the great sea," Numbers 36:6-7; Joshua 15:47, "the sea." Genesis 49:13; Psalms 80:11. Also frequently of the Red Sea. Exodus 15:4. See Red Sea.

3. Inland lakes termed, seas, as the Salt or Dead Sea. See Sea, The Salt.

4. Any great collection of waters, as the river Nile, Isaiah 19:5, and the Euphrates. Jeremiah 51:36.