Bible Dictionary: Seacoast

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.

Strong's Hebrew

2348. choph -- shore, coast
... 2347, 2348. choph. 2349 . shore, coast. Transliteration: choph Phonetic
Spelling: (khofe) Short Definition: seacoast. Word Origin ...
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2256a. chebel -- cord, territory, band
... 2), line (4), lines (2), measurement (1), measuring line (1), noose (1), portion
(3), portions (2), region (5), rope (1), ropes (7), seacoast* (2), tackle (1). ...
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3220. yam -- sea
... Word Origin of uncertain derivation Definition sea NASB Word Usage red* (24), sea
(278), seacoast* (5), seas (27), seashore (1), seashore* (9), south (1), west ...
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Library

At the Foot of the Bamboos
... Thus on entering the harbor from Quemoy and other islands, near the mouth of the
harbor or from the cities and villages on the seacoast, the first foreign ...
//christianbookshelf.org/fagg/forty years in south china/v at the foot of.htm

The Story of the Angel by the Altar
... Far up in the north, at the foot of snowy Mount Hermon, was another Caesarea; but
so that it might not be confused with Caesarea upon the seacoast this city ...
/.../marshall/the wonder book of bible stories/the story of the angel.htm

Pride of Prosperity
... Kings 9:16. This city Solomon rebuilt and thus apparently greatly strengthened
his kingdom along the Mediterranean seacoast. But in ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 3 pride of prosperity.htm

The Murderous Rejection.
... This time His withdrawal is clear out of the Jewish territory, far up north to the
vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, on the seacoast, and there He attempts to remain ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks about jesus/the murderous rejection.htm

Caesarea. Strato's Tower.
... For between Dori and Joppa, in the middle of which this city lay, it happened
that all the seacoast was destitute of havens, &c. ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 57 caesarea stratos tower.htm

The Epistle to the Philippians.
... in a fertile region, with contiguous gold and silver mines, on the banks of a small
river and the highway between Asia and Europe, ten miles from the seacoast. ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 97 the epistle to.htm

Jesus Heals Multitudes Beside the Sea of Galilee.
... Tyre and Sidon were Phoenician cities on the Mediterranean seacoast, westward from
the Lake of Galilee.] ^a and he healed them all, 16 and charged them that ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/xl jesus heals multitudes beside.htm

On God and his Perfections
... Him as it were? There are some birds that build their nests on the sides
of great rocky precipices by the seacoast. Their eggs are ...
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Laboring under Difficulties
... When Paul first visited Corinth, he found himself among a people who were suspicious
of the motives of strangers. The Greeks on the seacoast were keen traders. ...
/.../white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 33 laboring under difficulties.htm

The "Little Knife" Insurrection
... in that city. Chinchew is an important city near the seacoast, about one-third
of the way from Amoy to Foochow. The suggestion concerning ...
/.../fagg/forty years in south china/vi the little knife insurrection.htm

Thesaurus

Seacoast (7 Occurrences)
... (n.) The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used
adjectively. Multi-Version Concordance Seacoast (7 Occurrences). ...
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Coast (70 Occurrences)
... Version; Ezekiel 25:16); paralios, literally, "by the sea" (Luke 6:17)): "Coast"
(from Latin costa, "rib" or "side") in the sense of "seacoast," occurs but a ...
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Great (10383 Occurrences)
... He began his march southward along the seacoast of Syria toward Egypt,
a country that had always impressed the Greek imagination. ...
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Philistines (224 Occurrences)
... 5. History in the Old Testament until Death of Saul: The Philistines conquered the
"downs" (geliloth, Joel 3:4) near the seacoast, and were so powerful at the ...
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Zemarite (2 Occurrences)
... The name probably survives in that of Sumra, a village on the seacoast between
Tripolis and Ruwad, about 1 1/2 miles North of Nahr el-Kebir. ...
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Judaea (45 Occurrences)
... The seacoast also as far north as Ptolemais (`Akka), except Jamnia, Joppa and
(according to the Talm) Caesarea, belonged to this province. ...
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Tarsus (5 Occurrences)
... Minor. It lay on both banks of the river Cydnus, in the midst of a fertile
alluvial plain, some 10 miles from the seacoast. About ...
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Tripolis
... Its position on the Phoenician seacoast, with easy access to the interior,
gave it many advantages from the commercial point of view. ...
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Rameses (5 Occurrences)
... of Past, Old Series, VI, 11) gives an Egyptian letter describing the "city of
Rameses-Miamun," which appears to be Zoan, since it was on the seacoast. ...
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Raamses (1 Occurrence)
... of Past, Old Series, VI, 11) gives an Egyptian letter describing the "city of
Rameses-Miamun," which appears to be Zoan, since it was on the seacoast. ...
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Bible Concordance

Seacoast (7 Occurrences)

Luke 6:17 And he came down with them to a level place, and a great band of his disciples, and a very great number of people from all Judaea and Jerusalem and from the parts of Tyre and Sidon by the sea, came to give hearing to him, and to be made well from their diseases;
(See RSV)

Deuteronomy 1:7 turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the Lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore; the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
(See NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 47:7 How shall it be quiet, And Jehovah hath given a charge to it, Against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? There hath He appointed it!'
(See NAS)

Ezekiel 25:16 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am stretching out My hand against the Philistines, And I have cut off the Cherethim, And destroyed the remnant of the haven of the sea,
(See NAS RSV)

Zephaniah 2:5 Ho! O inhabitants of the sea-coast, Nation of the Cherethites, A word of Jehovah 'is' against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines, And I have destroyed thee without an inhabitant.
(See NAS RSV)

Zephaniah 2:6 And the sea-coast hath been habitations, Cottages 'for' shepherds, and folds 'for' a flock.
(See NAS RSV)

Zephaniah 2:7 The land by the sea will be for the rest of the children of Judah; by the sea they will give their flocks food: in the houses of Ashkelon they will take their rest in the evening; for the Lord their God will take them in hand and their fate will be changed.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Seacoast

Related Terms

Coast (70 Occurrences)

Great (10383 Occurrences)

Philistines (224 Occurrences)

Zemarite (2 Occurrences)

Judaea (45 Occurrences)

Tarsus (5 Occurrences)

Tripolis

Rameses (5 Occurrences)

Raamses (1 Occurrence)