Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

θάλασσα

Vocabulary form: 
qavlassa, -hV, hJ
Definition: 

sea, lake

Frequency: 
91
GK: 
2498
Root: 
qalassa
Cognates: 

Thalassian (qalavssioV) means "pertaining to the sea."

Mnemonics: 

The lake was like glass.

Mnemonic Singing: 

Casting down their golden crowns
around the glassy sea

Biblical Concordance

Acts 27:40 So they cut loose the anchors, left them in the sea (thalassan | θάλασσαν | acc sg fem), and at the same time untied the ropes that held the rudders. Then hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.
Acts 28:4 When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “Certainly this man is a murderer, and though he has escaped from the sea (thalassēs | θαλάσσης | gen sg fem), justice has not allowed him to live.”
Romans 9:27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Even if the number of the sons of Israel were as the sand of the sea (thalassēs | θαλάσσης | gen sg fem), only a remnant will be saved;
1 Corinthians 10:1 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea (thalassēs | θαλάσσης | gen sg fem),
1 Corinthians 10:2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea (thalassē | θαλάσσῃ | dat sg fem),
2 Corinthians 11:26 On my frequent journeys I have been exposed to dangers from rivers, dangers from bandits, dangers from my own people, dangers from Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the countryside, dangers at sea (thalassē | θαλάσσῃ | dat sg fem), dangers at the hands of false brothers;
Hebrews 11:12 And so it was that from this one man, and he was already impotent, there were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven in number and as innumerable as the grains of sand along the shore of the sea (thalassēs | θαλάσσης | gen sg fem)
Hebrews 11:29 By faith they crossed the Red Sea (thalassan | θάλασσαν | acc sg fem) as if on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried, they were drowned.
James 1:6 But he must ask in faith without doubting, for the doubter is like a wave of the sea (thalassēs | θαλάσσης | gen sg fem), driven by the wind and tossed about.
Jude 1:13 wild waves of the sea (thalassēs | θαλάσσης | gen sg fem), casting up their shameful deeds like foam; wandering stars for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
Revelation 4:6 and before the throne there was as it were a sea (thalassa | θάλασσα | nom sg fem) of glass, like crystal; and around the throne, close by the throne, were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back.
Revelation 5:13 Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea (thalassēs | θαλάσσης | gen sg fem), and all that is in them, saying, “To the one seated on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”
Revelation 7:1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind could blow on the earth or on the sea (thalassēs | θαλάσσης | gen sg fem) or against any tree.
Revelation 7:2 Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God. And he called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the earth and the sea (thalassan | θάλασσαν | acc sg fem),
Revelation 7:3 saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea (thalassan | θάλασσαν | acc sg fem) or the trees until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”
Revelation 8:8 The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown down into the sea (thalassan | θάλασσαν | acc sg fem), and a third of the sea (thalassēs | θαλάσσης | gen sg fem) turned into blood,
Revelation 8:9 a third of the living creatures in the sea (thalassē | θαλάσσῃ | dat sg fem) died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
Revelation 10:2 He held in his hand a little scroll that had been unrolled. Placing his right foot on the sea (thalassēs | θαλάσσης | gen sg fem) and his left foot on the land,
Revelation 10:5 Then the angel that I had seen standing on the sea (thalassēs | θαλάσσης | gen sg fem) and on the land raised his right hand to heaven
Revelation 10:6 and swore by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea (thalassan | θάλασσαν | acc sg fem) and what is in it, “There will be no more delay!
Revelation 10:8 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea (thalassēs | θαλάσσης | gen sg fem) and on the land.”
Revelation 12:12 Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and all who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea (thalassan | θάλασσαν | acc sg fem), for the devil has come down to you having great wrath, because he knows that he has only a short time!”
Revelation 12:18
Revelation 13:1 And I saw, rising out of the sea (thalassēs | θαλάσσης | gen sg fem), a beast with ten horns and seven heads. On his ten horns were ten crowns and on his heads were written blasphemous names.
Revelation 14:7 And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea (thalassan | θάλασσαν | acc sg fem) and the springs of water.”
Revelation 15:2 And I saw what appeared to be a sea (thalassan | θάλασσαν | acc sg fem) of glass mixed with fire, and those who had conquered the beast and his image and the number of his name. They were standing beside the sea (thalassan | θάλασσαν | acc sg fem) of glass with harps given them by God.
Revelation 16:3 The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea (thalassan | θάλασσαν | acc sg fem) and it turned into blood like that of a corpse, and every living creature in the sea (thalassē | θαλάσσῃ | dat sg fem) died.
Revelation 18:17 For in a single hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin.” And every sea captain and everyone who travels by sea, sailors and those who make their living from the sea (thalassan | θάλασσαν | acc sg fem), stood at a distance
Revelation 18:19 And they threw dust on their heads and cried out as they wept and mourned, saying, “Alas, alas, O great city by which all who had ships at sea (thalassē | θαλάσσῃ | dat sg fem) grew rich from her prosperity! For in a single hour she has been brought to ruin.
Revelation 18:21 Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a huge millstone and hurled it into the sea (thalassan | θάλασσαν | acc sg fem), saying, “With this kind of violence Babylon the great city will be thrown down, and never again will it be found!
Revelation 20:8 and will go out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle. In number they are as the sand of the sea (thalassēs | θαλάσσης | gen sg fem).
Revelation 20:13 And the sea (thalassa | θάλασσα | nom sg fem) gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and they were judged, each one according to his deeds.
Revelation 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea (thalassa | θάλασσα | nom sg fem) was no more.

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