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Red Sea

Red Sea

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Red Sea (Arabic: al‐Baḥr al‐Aḥmar)While most international names translate as the ‘Red Sea’, the Hebrew name is Yam Sūf ‘Sea of Reeds’. It has therefore been suggested in some quarters that the name should really be the ‘Reed Sea’. However, several theories have been put forward for the generally accepted name, of which perhaps the most plausible is that at times the algae Trichodesmium erythraeum appears in the water and when it fades away it gives the water a reddish brown colour.
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Red Sea

A Dictionary of the Bible | 1997 | | Copyright

Red Sea The sea which divides Africa from Arabia, and always an important trade route. Solomon kept a naval force at Eziongeber (1 Kgs. 9: 26–8; 10: 11, 22) more successfully than Jehoshaphat (1 Kgs. 22: 48), whose ships were wrecked there.

The ‘Red Sea’ which the Israelites crossed after leaving Egypt is properly translated ‘Sea, or Lake, of Reeds’ and may refer to the marshes of Lake Timsah which are now part of the Suez Canal (Exod. 14: 18). See Exodus.
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Red Sea

World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

Red Sea Narrow arm of the Indian Ocean between ne Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, connected to the Mediterranean Sea by the Gulf of Suez and the Suez Canal. With the building of vessels too large for the canal and the construction of pipelines, the Red Sea's importance as a trade route diminished. Max. width: c.320km (200mi). Area: 438,000sq km (169,000sq mi).
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Red Sea

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

Red Sea An elongate basin, 2000 km long, with shorelines 360 km apart at the widest point and only 28 km apart where it joins the Gulf of Aden. The Red Sea has an inner median valley, associated with a positive gravity anomaly, containing basalts and hot brines, and the sea is thought to be at the young stage of the Wilson cycle of an ocean.
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Red Sea

A Dictionary of Ecology | 2004 | | Copyright

Red Sea An elongate basin, 2000 km long, with shorelines 360 km apart at the widest point and only 28 km apart where it joins the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea has an inner median valley, associated with a positive gravity anomaly, containing basalts and hot brines. The sea is thought to be at the young stage of the Wilson cycle of an ocean.
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Red Sea

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Copyright

Red Sea. The crossing of the Red Sea by the Israelites, recorded in Exod. 14 and 15, marked the end of their bondage in Egypt and was subsequently regarded as a turning-point in their destiny.
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