Strong G1337διθάλασσος

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Transliteration
dithalassos
Pronunciation
dee-thal'-as-sos
Morphology
Greek Adjective

Definition

From G1364 and G2281; having two seas that is a sound with a double outlet: - where two seas met.

Detailed definition

διθάλασσος, -ον
(δις, θύλασσα);
1. divided into two seas (as the Euxine, Strab., ii, 522).

2. dividing the sea: τόπον δ., a tongue of land, or reef, running out into the sea: Act.27:41.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G1337 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • meet1

First verses

  1. Acts 27:41
    And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
δῐ-θάλασσος,
Attic dialect διθάλαττος [θᾰ], ον, divided into two seas, of the Euxine, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.5.22, compare 2nd c.AD: Dionysius Periegeta 156)]; of the Atlantic, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 1.1.8.)]
II between two seas, where two seas meet, as is often the case off a headland, [NT (NT.Act.27.41)]; βραχέα καὶ διθάλαττα shallows and meetings of currents, in the Syrtes, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 5.9.)]