Strong's Concordance dithalassos: divided into two seas, dividing the sea (as a reef) Original Word: διθάλασσος, ονPart 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: διθάλασσοςδιθάλασσος, 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.) 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 Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 13371 Occurrence 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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