noun · feminine

thalassas

GreekΘάλασσα (thalassa)

Strong’sG2281

the sea, lake

stem thalass-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

sea1×

What it means

θάλασσα, -ης, ἡ,

[in LXX chiefly for יָם;]

the sea: Mt 23:15, Mk 11:23, Lk 21:25, Ro 9:27, He 11:12, Ja 1:6, Ju 13, Re 7:1, al.; τὸ πέλαγος τῆς θ. (v. Tr., ut infr.), Mt 18:6; ὁ οὐρανὸς κ. ἡ γῆ κ. ἡ θ., of the whole world, Ac 4:24, al. (Hg 2:7); θ. ὑαλίνη, Re 4:6 15:2; of the Mediterranean, Ac 10:6, 32 17:14; of the Red Sea, ἐρυθρὰ θ., Ac 7:36, I Co 10:1, 2, He 11:29; of an inland lake (as Heb. יָם), θ. τ. Γαλιλαίας, Mt 4:18 15:29, Mk 1:16 7:31; τ. Τιβεριάδος, Jo 21:1; τ. Γ. τ. T., Jo 6:1; of the same, simply ἡ θ., Mt 4:15, Mk 2:13, al.

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.

Every form

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

thalassstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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

thalassas — θάλασσα, the sea, lake

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

thalassa“sea”to, fordative singular1×

Acts 7:36“sea”houtos exagata autoin poiaratos terateim kai sēmeim en gēa Aigupta kai en Eruthra Thalassa kai en ta erēma eteim tesserakonta.He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.