Red Sea (Reed Sea) - 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,” “hinder part” (Joel 2:20 ; 2 Chronicles 20:16 ; Ecclesiastes 3:11 ). Yam Suph could be translated “Sea of Reeds” or “Sea at the end of the world. ) translated yam Suph consistently with Erthra Thalassa “Red Sea. 400) by using Mare Rubrum “Red Sea” for yam Suph . ” TEV uses various terms to translate yam Suph : “Gulf of Suez (Exodus 10:19 ); “Red Sea” (see footnote on Exodus 13:18 ); and “Gulf of Aqaba (1 Kings 9:26 ). ” In the eleventh century the French Jewish scholar Rashi spoke of yam Suph in terms of a marsh overgrown with weeds. In the twelfth century Ibn Ezra, a Spanish Jew, commented that yam Suph in Exodus 13:18 may be so named because reeds grow around it. Martin Luther translated yam Suph as Schilfmeer : “Reed Sea. ” Although the name “Reed Sea” has been widely accepted by many scholars, there have been many recent attempts to prove the term “Sea of Reeds” is not a legitimate reading for yam Suph . ... The Old Testament uses the term yam Suph to refer to more than one location. The “Way of the ( yam Suph ) Red Sea” is part of the name of a highway out of Egypt (Exodus 13:18 ; Numbers 14:45 ; Numbers 21:4 ; Deuteronomy 1:40 ; Deuteronomy 2:1 ; Judges 11:16 ). Yam Suph marked the ideal southern border of Israel ( Exodus 23:31 ), but the most significant reference of “Red Sea” in the Old Testament was to the place where God delivered Israel from Pharaoh's army (Exodus 15:4 ,Exodus 15:4,15:22 ; Numbers 21:14 ; Duet

Suph - Suph . A place-name in Deuteronomy 1:1 ‘In the Arabah over against Suph’; AV [Note: Authorized Version. Suph means ‘weeds,’ and the ‘Sea of Weeds’ was the Hebrew name of the Red Sea

Zuph - Zuph (zŭph), or Suph, R

Flag - Suph , a weed that grows on the banks of the Nile, among which Moses in the ark was laid

Suphah - KJV created, “Yam-Suph,” or “Red Sea. ” Others find a compound place name, “Waheb in Suphah,” indicating two locations in Moab

Suph - Some identify it with Suphah (Numbers 21:14 , marg. It is most probable, however, that, in accordance with the ancient versions, this word is to be regarded as simply an abbreviation of Yam-Suph, i

Flag - In Exodus 2:3,5 , Isaiah 19:6 , it is the rendering of the Hebrew Suph_, a word which occurs frequently in connection with _yam ; As Yam Suph , To denote the "Red Sea" (q

Red Sea - The Hebrew name generally given to this sea is Yam Suph . This word Suph Means a woolly kind of sea-weed, which the sea casts up in great abundance on its shores

Dizahab - The writer of Deuteronomy 1:1 thought of this as a town on the further side of the Jordan, in the ‘Arabah, on the border of Moab, ‘over against Suph,’ and as belonging to a group of places which he names. The site of Suph is unknown. At Numbers 21:14 we find Suphah ( Deuteronomy 1:1 Samuph) in conjunction with Vaheb (see RV [Note: Revised Version

Mixed Multitude - Exodus 12:38, 'eereb raab ; Numbers 11:4, hasaph Suph ; like our English "riff-raff," a mob gathered from various quarters; accompanied Israel at the Exodus from Egypt

Flag - Also "the Red Sea," the sea of Suph (Exodus 10:19)

Red Sea - ... This primitive extension of the gulf to the north, the region of weeds, probably accounts for its name, Yam Suph , ‘ sea of weeds ’ ( Exodus 10:19 ; Exodus 15:4 ), which was later applied also to the eastern extension, the Bay of Akabah ( Numbers 21:4 ), to the entire body of water now known as the Red Sea, stretching from the Ras Mohammed southward to the straits, and perhaps even to the Persian Gulf ( Exodus 23:31 )

Red Sea - Hebrew: Sea of Suph ("seaweed"; like wool, as the Arabic means: Gesenius)

Red Sea - --The sea known to us as the Red Sea was by the Israelites called "the sea," (Exodus 14:2,9,16,21,28 ; 15:1,4,8,10,19 ; Joshua 24:6,7 ) and many other passages, and specially "the sea of Suph . " Three centuries later, Solomon's navy was built "in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea (Yam Suph), in the land of Edom

Wilderness (2) - Besides those local denominations, others occur which apply to peripheric regions: wildernesses of Shur, of Sin, of Sinai, of Paran, of Ẓin, of Kadesh, of Ethan (or Yam-Suph), of Maon, of Ziph, of Beersheba, of Engedi, of Jeruel, of Beth-aven, of Edom, of Moab, of Kedemoth

Canaan, History And Religion of - ... The Baalistic Canaanites influenced Israel in many ways: Temple construction, sacrificial rituals, the high places, a rejection of any sexual motif as a worship instrument (Deuteronomy 23:17-18 ), and a lessening of the purely mythical with a concomitant emphasis upon the historical happening as with Yahweh's splitting of the sea (Yam Suph) rather than a struggle with a mythological Yam(Exodus 14-15 )

Red Sea - It was also called Yam Suph, "the weedy sea," in several passages, Numbers 33:10 ; Psalms 106:9 , &c, which are improperly rendered "the Red Sea

Egypt - The "flags" are a species called tuff or sufi , Hebrew Suph , smaller than that of which the ark was made (Exodus 2:3), "bulrushes," "flags" (Isaiah 18:2; Isaiah 19:7)