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Places of the Bible

Great Sea

Water · sea

Along the Mediterranean coast, southward. Beirut, pigeon rocks
Along the Mediterranean coast, southward. Beirut, pigeon rocks 1950 · American Colony Photo Department / Matson Photo Service · Library of Congress, no known restrictions on publication

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Great Sea, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.

  • Crossing the Jordan into Canaan · 1450 BC · 1 verse
  • War with Canaanites · 1450 BC · 1 verse
  • Prophecies of Ezekiel · 592 BC · 5 verses

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

(Joel 2:20; Ezek. 47:18), the Dead Sea, which lay on the east side of the Holy Land. The Mediterranean, which lay on the west, was hence called the “great sea for the west border” (Num. 34:6).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 12 verses

Numbers
34:6, 34:7
Joshua
1:4, 9:1, 15:12, 15:47, 23:4
Ezekiel
47:10, 47:15, 47:19, 47:20, 48:28

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.