Lux Domini

Biblical place

Where was Great Sea?

Biblical place identified in the local geography layer with Mediterranean Sea.

First appears in Exodus 23:31 · 14 books · 24 chapters

Overview

(Heb. yam), signifies (1) “the gathering together of the waters,” the ocean (Gen. 1:10); (2) a river, as the Nile (Isa. 19:5), the Euphrates (Isa. 21:1; Jer. 51:36); (3) the Red Sea. Modern identification: Mediterranean Sea.

Great Sea is represented in the local geography layer as Mediterranean Sea. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Exodus 23:31 and is mentioned across 14 books, with 36 verse references collected into the glossary index.

Nearby biblical places

Bethlehem

About 99 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Jerusalem

About 101 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Judea

About 101 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Samaria

About 110 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Jericho

About 121 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Where it sits on the map

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How to get to Great Sea today

Find the traditionally identified site on a modern map.

Great Sea names a waterway or shoreline rather than one stop, so the map point acts as a geographic center inside the wider corridor.

Great Sea is mapped here as a representative point along the wider water corridor.

This is a study aid, not live travel advice. Borders, permits, local access, and the exact identification of biblical landscapes can change.

Modern orientation

Mediterranean Sea

31.805°N · 34.170°E

Key passages

Appears in

Joshua

8 chapters · 14 verse mentions

Ezekiel

2 chapters · 6 verse mentions

Numbers

2 chapters · 4 verse mentions

Deuteronomy

2 chapters · 2 verse mentions

Exodus

1 chapter · 1 verse mention

1 Kings

1 chapter · 1 verse mention

2 Chronicles

1 chapter · 1 verse mention

Ezra

1 chapter · 1 verse mention

Psalms

1 chapter · 1 verse mention

Isaiah

1 chapter · 1 verse mention

Jeremiah

1 chapter · 1 verse mention

Daniel

1 chapter · 1 verse mention

Joel

1 chapter · 1 verse mention

Zechariah

1 chapter · 1 verse mention