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red sea
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The Red Sea is a body of water between Africa and Asia. Red Sea may also refer to: The Red Sea (EP) , a 1999 EP by the band Isis Red Sea (Augustus Pablo album) , 1998 Red Sea, a 1972 album by Warhorse Red Sea (state) , a state of Sudan, also adjacent to ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
the Greek thalassa erythra ; the reason for the name is unknown; speculation has traced it to: algae in coastal waters; sandstone rock formations on the shores; a tribal name; ancient association of "red" with "south" (as "black" with "north").
Usage examples of red sea.
It was the waters of the Red Sea, which the incline of the tunnel precipitated violently toward the Mediterranean.
Starting from the Red Sea, they followed the east coast, rounded the Cape, and sailed north along the west coast to the Mediterranean, reaching Egypt again in the third year of this enterprise.
As for the parting of the waters, it's generally agreed that the Hebrews didn't cross the Red Sea, but rather a Sea of Reeds in the northern part of the Egyptian Delta, along a well-known ancient route into Sinai and Palestine.
The thing ignored them, walking through the cleared space like some horrible null-light Moses crossing the Red Sea.
Thence I travelled with Arabs to the Red Sea, where wild men made a slave of me, and we were blown across the Indian Ocean to a beauteous island named Ceylon, in which all the folk are black.
And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
Remember how our fathers were saved at the Red Sea, when Pharaoh with his forces pursued them.
Then it overflowed into Asia and during the thirteen years of Alexander's reign he first brought under his power the whole of the Persian dominions, the extent of which was almost illimitable, and then he traversed Arabia and India up to where the Red Sea washes the remotest frontiers of the world.