Red Sea
(yam-cuph (Ex 10:19 and often), but in many passages it is
simply hayam, "the sea"' Septuagint with 2 or 3 exceptions
renders it by he eruthra thalassa, "the Red Sea"; Latin
geographers Mare Rubrum):
1. Name
2. Peculiarities
3. Old Testament References
4. Passage through the Red Sea by the Israelites
Objections
(1) Steep Banks of the Channel
(2)...
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The locusts which devastated Egypt destroyed in
Ex 10:19
-Israelites cross; Pharaoh and his army drowned in
Ex 14; 15:1,4,11,19; Nu 33:8; De 11:4; Jos 2:10;
4:23;
24:6,7; Jud 11:16; 2Sa 22:16; Ne 9:9-11; Ps 66:6;
78:13,53;
106:7-11,22; 136:13-15; Isa 43:16,17; Ac 7:36; 1Co
10:1,2;
Heb 11:29
-Israelites camp beside
Ex 14:2,9; Nu 14:25; 21...
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1. Name. --The sea known to us as the Red Sea was by the
Israelites called "the sea," Ex 14:2,9,16,21,28;
15:1,4,8,10,19; Jos 24:6,7 and many other passages, and
specially "the sea of Suph." Ex 10:19; 13:18; 15:4,22;
23:31; Nu 14:25 etc. This word signifies a sea-weed
resembling wool, and such sea-weed is thrown up abundantly
on the shores of...
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The sea so called extends along the west coast of Arabia for
about 1,400 miles, and separates Asia from Africa.
It is
connected with the Indian Ocean, of which it is an
arm, by the
Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb. At a point (Ras Mohammed)
about 200
miles from its nothern extremity it is divided into
two arms,
that on the east called the AElanitic...
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Hebrew: Sea of Suph ("seaweed"; like wool, as the Arabic
means: Gesenius). The Egyptians called it the Sea of Punt
(Arabia). Called "red" probably from the color of the weed,
and the red coral and sandstone, not from Edom ("red") which
touched it only at Elath; nor from Himyerites (hamar, "red"
in Arabic; the Phoenicians too are thought to mea...
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And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away
the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained
not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt....
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