1337. dithalassos
Strong's Concordance
dithalassos: divided into two seas, dividing the sea (as a reef)
Original Word: διθάλασσος, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: dithalassos
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-thal'-as-sos)
Short Definition: between two seas
Definition: between two seas, which has sea on both sides.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1337: διθάλασσος

διθάλασσος, διθάλασσον (δίς and θάλασσα)

1. resembling (or forming) two seas: thus of the Euxine Sea, Strabo 2, 5, 22; Dionysius Periegetes, 156.

2. lying between two seas, i. e. washed by the sea on both sides (Dio Chrysostom 5, p. 83): τόπος διθάλασσος, an isthmus or tongue of land, the extremity of which is covered by the waves, Acts 27:41; others understand here a projecting reef or bar against which the waves dash on both sides; in opposition cf. Meyer at the passage (In Clement. hom., p. 20, Dressel edition (Ep. Petr. ad Jacob. § 14), men ἀλογιστοι καί ἐνδοιαζοντες περί τῶν τῆς ἀληθείας ἐπαγγελματων are allegorically styled τόποι διθαλασσοι δέ καί θηριωδεις.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
where two seas meet.

From dis and thalassa; having two seas, i.e. A sound with a double outlet -- where two seas meet.

see GREEK dis

see GREEK thalassa

Forms and Transliterations
διείς διθαλασσον διθάλασσον δίθυμος dithalasson dithálasson
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Strong's Greek 1337
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διθάλασσον — 1 Occ.

Acts 27:41 Adj-AMS
GRK: εἰς τόπον διθάλασσον ἐπέκειλαν τὴν
NAS: a reef where two seas met, they ran
KJV: a place where two seas met, they ran
INT: into a place where two seas met they ran aground the

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