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- Water of separation Used along with the ashes of a red heifer for the ceremonial cleansing of persons defiled by contact with a dead body (Numbers 19).
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Body of water God dried up in the Exodus. Red Sea is a common translation of two Hebrew words yam suph . Yam means “sea,” but suph does not normally mean “red.”. Suph often means “reeds” ( Exodus 2:3 ,Exodus 2:3,2:5; Isaiah 19:6 ) or “end,”.
The sea is considered the body of water south of both Mount Sinai and the peninsula itself. It is too far away from Egypt and from where Israel encamped after leaving Pharaoh (Exodus 14:2, 9) to be the place where God performed one of his greatest miracles. Location of Red Sea near Sinai Peninsula.
This word signifies a sea-weed resembling wool, and such sea-weed is thrown up abundantly on the shores of the Red Sea; hence Brugsch calls it the sea of reeds or weeds. The color of the water is not red. Ebers says that it is of a lovely blue-green color, and named Red either from its red banks or from the Erythraeans, who were called the red ...
Some have supposed that it was called red from the appearance of the mountains on the western coast, others from the red color given to the water by the presence of zoophytes, or red coral, or some species of seaweed.
An ancient canal conveyed the waters of the Nile to the Red Sea, flowing through the Wadi-t Tumeylat and irrigating with its system of water-channels a large extent of country. It was 62 Roman miles long, 54 feet wide and 7 feet deep.
Dec 23, 2023 · Water symbolizes judgment and destruction in the Bible through stories like the Great Flood and the parting of the Red Sea. It represents God's power to bring about consequences for disobedience and to cleanse the earth of wickedness.
RED SEA (from LXX ἐρυθά θάλασσα, for the Heb. יַמ־ס֔וּף sea of reeds). 1. 1. Waters that parted before the Israelites at their Exodus from Egypt.
