Sea

The sea created and controlled by God

Genesis 1:9–10; Jeremiah 5:22 See also Psalm 95:5, Psalm 107:29, Psalm 146:6; Isaiah 50:2; Amos 5:8, Amos 9:6; Acts 4:24, Acts 14:15

And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so. God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.

Creatures of the sea

Psalm 104:25 See also Genesis 1:21; Psalm 8:8; Ezekiel 38:20; Hosea 4:3; Habakkuk 1:14

Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.

Sea monsters sometimes represented spiritual forces

Psalm 74:13 See also Job 26:12; Isaiah 27:1; Revelation 13:1

You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;

The sea represented hidden depths

Amos 9:3 See also 2 Samuel 22:16; Job 38:16; Micah 7:19; Matthew 18:6

Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.

Named seas

The Red, or Reed, Sea

Exodus 10:19 See also Hebrews 11:29

And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.

The Dead, or Salt, Sea

Genesis 14:3 See also 2 Kings 14:25

The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

The Sea of Galilee

Numbers 34:11; John 6:1

then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.

After this, Jesus crossed to the other side of the Sea of Galilee ( that is, the Sea of Tiberias ).

The Great, or Mediterranean, Sea

Numbers 34:6–7 See also Ezekiel 47:10

Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west. Your northern border will run from the Great Sea directly to Mount Hor,

The Adriatic Sea

Acts 27:27 In NT times referring to an area extending south of the present Adriatic Sea.

On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea. About midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.

The Sea before the temple

See also 1 Kings 7:23–26, 1 Kings 7:39; 2 Kings 16:17, 2 Kings 25:13

The sea before the throne

Revelation 4:6, Revelation 15:2

Metaphorical references to the sea

Isaiah 17:12; James 1:6 See also Job 7:12, Job 11:9, Job 14:11–12; Psalm 93:4; Isaiah 5:30, Isaiah 11:9, Isaiah 48:18, Isaiah 57:20; Jeremiah 6:23, Jeremiah 49:23, Jeremiah 50:42, Jeremiah 51:42; Lamentations 2:13; Ezekiel 26:3; Zechariah 10:11; Jude 1:13

Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.

But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

No more sea

Revelation 21:1

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.