noun · feminine
thalassas
Strong’sG2281
the sea, lake
stem thalass-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
θάλασσα, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for יָם;]
SYN.: πέλαγος, the vast expanse of open water"; θ., "the sea as contrasted with the land" (Tr., Syn., xiii).
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2281 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidthal'-as-sah
the sea (genitive case or specially)
Fromprobably prolonged from G251;
King Jamessea.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Attic dialectθᾰλᾰμ-ττα Refs (but θάλασσα 22.236 Refs 4th c.BC+, ἡ: —sea, Refs 8th c.BC+: frequently of the Mediterranean sea, ἥδε ἡ θ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ παρ᾽ ἡμῖν θ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ἐντὸς καὶ κ. ἡ. λεγομένη θ. Refs 1st c.BC+; ἡ ἔσω θ. Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ ἔξω θ., of the Ocean, Refs; ἡ Ἀτλαντικὴ θ. Refs; ἡ μεγάλη θ. Refs 1st c.AD+; of a salt lake, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατὰ θάλασσαν by sea, opposed to πεζῇ, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to κατὰ γῆς, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατά τε γῆν καὶ κατὰ θ. Refs 5th c.BC+; τῆς θ. ἀνθεκτέα ἐστί one must engage in maritime affairs, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ περὶ τὴν θ. sea-faring men, Refs 4th c.BC+ a sea of troubles, Refs 4th c.BC+; ὁ Κρὴς τὴν θ. (i.e. ἀγνοεῖ), of pretended ignorance, Refs
2 sea-water, ἔστω ἐν χαλκῷ ἡ θ. Refs 5th c.BC+
3 well of salt water, said to be produced by a stroke of Poseidon's trident, in the Acropolis at Athens, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 channel, LXX
5 χαλκῆ θ. laver,LXX
6 θ. κοίλη wooden theatre, Refs 2nd c.AD+ —For the _Laconian dialect_ form σάλασσα, see at {θαλασσομέδων}.
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | thalassas | thalassais |
| object accusative | thalassan | thalassain |
| direct address vocative | thalassar | thalassair |
| of, belonging to genitive | thalassau | thalassaiu |
| to, for dative | thalassa1×Θαλάσσῃ | thalassai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
thalassa is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
thalassa“sea”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 7:36… en gēa Aigupta kai en Eruthra Thalassa kai en ta erēma eteim tesserakonta.… land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the …