'Sea' in the Bible

The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh, the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

Let the sea roar, and its fullness! Let the field exult, and all that is therein!

From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much brass, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.

and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you shall need; and we will bring it to you in floats by sea to Joppa; and you shall carry it up to Jerusalem."

Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass; and its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it.

Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.

It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.

He made also ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

He set the sea on the right side [of the house] eastward, toward the south.

one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.

Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

Then some came who told Jehoshaphat, saying, "A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea from Syria. Behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar" (that is, En Gedi).

They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, to them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

"You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,

You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.

King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands of the sea.

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.'

Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,

"Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea;

He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.

The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea;

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.

You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.

You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.

Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!

Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.

Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.

Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters;

The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.

What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?

To him who divided the Red Sea apart; for his loving kindness endures forever;

But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea; for his loving kindness endures forever:

If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;

who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

Praise Yahweh from the earth, you great sea creatures, and all depths!

when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;

Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent on a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden.

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.

They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.

For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.

that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!"

The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins."

He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan's strongholds.

These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea.

Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants.

Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea:

Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.

Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, [saying], Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he who put his holy Spirit in the midst of them?

Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'

They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion."

and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;

For thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,

Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name:

As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.

As I live, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, vine of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits and on your vintage the destroyer is fallen.

The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.

Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet.

They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.

Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.