Great Sea
Identified with Mediterranean Sea.
Named in 12 tagged verses in 3 books, first at Numbers 34:6.
- Kind
- Body of water
- Coordinates
- 31.80° N, 34.17° E
- Nearest
- Ashkelon 38.8 km
- People
- 1 person
- Events
- 3 events
- Tagged in
- 12 verses
Map
Great Sea is the filled marker at the centre; the 10 nearest places with a page are around it. The position follows OpenBible.info. The dashed ring marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.
People
People named in the same verses as Great Sea, most often first.
Events
3 events told in verses that name Great Sea, in the order of the traditional chronology. Years are traditional (Jones).
- 1450 BCCrossing the Jordan into Canaan1 shared verse
- 1450 BCWar with Canaanites1 shared verse
- 592 BCProphecies of Ezekiel5 shared verses
Mentions
12 tagged verses in 3 books. Select a book to read its verses.
Counts are verses tagged with this place in Theographic. How Begat counts
Every verse
All 12 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.
Numbers2 verses
Joshua5 verses
- 1:4
Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.
- 9:1
Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—
- 15:12
And the western border was the coastline of the Great Sea. These are the boundaries around the clans of the descendants of Judah.
- 15:47
Ashdod, with its towns and villages; Gaza, with its towns and villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt and the coastline of the Great Sea.
- 23:4
See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.
Ezekiel5 verses
- 47:10
Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.
- 47:15
This shall be the boundary of the land: On the north side it will extend from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon through Lebo-hamath to Zedad,
- 47:19
On the south side it will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, and along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea. This will be the southern boundary.
- 47:20
And on the west side, the Great Sea will be the boundary up to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This will be the western boundary.
- 48:28
The southern border of Gad will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, then along the Brook of Egypt and out to the Great Sea.
Nearby
The 10 places with a page nearest to Great Sea, by straight-line distance.