place
Red Sea
סוּףἐρυθρός
The Red Sea was the body of water miraculously crossed by the Israelites in their escape from Egypt (Exo. 13:18; 15:4).
- verses
- 26
- first named
- Exodus 10:19
- last named
- Hebrews 11:29
- feature
- body of water
- coordinates
- 28.75°N · 33.00°E
Gulf of Suez (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 12 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Red Sea in the text
The Red Sea is significant in the Bible as the sea the Israelites miraculously crossed during the Exodus from Egypt. God parted the waters, allowing Israel to cross on dry ground, but drowned the pursuing Egyptian army when the waters closed back over them (Exo. 14-15). This event is remembered as a great act of divine deliverance (Jos. 2:10; Neh. 9:9; Psa. 106:7-9; 136:13-15). The Red Sea also marked the southern border of the Promised Land (Exo. 23:31). King Solomon later built a fleet of ships on the Red Sea at Ezion-geber (1Ki. 9:26). The Hebrew name Yam Suph means "Sea of Reeds", so the body of water was likely one of the shallow lakes along Egypt's eastern border rather than the main body of the Red Sea. Its exact location is debated.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The pattern
Where Red Sea is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
26 verses across 11 of 66 books; 55 write the name nowhere. Named in Exodus (5), Numbers (4), Deuteronomy (3), Joshua (3), Judges (1), 1 Kings (1), Nehemiah (1), Psalms (5), Jeremiah (1), Acts (1) and Hebrews (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 26, across 11 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Exodus 10The Red Sea receives the locusts when a strong west wind carries them away from Egypt.
- Exodus 13The wilderness route led Israel towards the Red Sea.
- Exodus 15The Red Sea covered Pharaoh’s army, while Israel walked through it on dry ground.
- Exodus 23The Red Sea forms one end of the borders established for Israel.
- Numbers 21The Red Sea was the direction of Israel’s route as it bypassed Edom.
- Deuteronomy 2The wilderness route turned back by way of the Red Sea.
- Deuteronomy 11The Red Sea engulfed the Egyptian army, horses, and chariots as they pursued Israel.
- Joshua 24The Red Sea is reached by Israel and pursued by the Egyptians, before the sea engulfs them.
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