Revelation 18:19:30Rev.18.19.W30TAB
θαλάσσῃ
thalassêi
“sea”
- Transliteration
- tha-LAS-sêi
- Extended
- thah-LAHS-say
- IPA
- /tʰaˈlas.sɛːi/
Meaning by language
- English
- sea
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Alphabet Analysis
| Theta | th — as in thin | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Eta | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
- word
tha-LAS-sêi
- sentence
KAI E-ba-lon khoon e-PI tas ke-pha-LAS au-TŌN KAI E-kra-ksan KLAI-on-tes KAI pen-THOUN-tes LE-gon-tes ou-AI ou-AI hê PO-lis hê me-GA-lê en hêi e-PLOU-tê-san PAN-tes hoi E-khon-tes ta PLOI-a en têi tha-LAS-sêi ek tês ti-mi-O-tê-tos au-TÊS HO-ti mi-AI HÔ-ra ê-rê-MÔ-thê
Exegesis
The relative clause en hē eploutesan pantes hoi echontes ta ploia en tē thalassē {ἐν ᾗ ἐπλούτησαν πάντες οἱ ἔχοντες τὰ πλοῖα ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ | en hē e-plóu-tē-san pán-tes hoi é-khon-tes tá ploî-a en tē tha-lás-sē} specifies the beneficiaries of the city’s trade, with the aorist eploutesan marking their enrichment as a completed reality and echontes as a substantival participle, “those who had.”
In context — Revelation 18:19
And they threw dust upon their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning, saying, “Woe, woe, for the great city in which all those who had ships on the sea became rich from her costliness , because in a single hour she was made desolate .”
About this coordinate
Revelation 18:19:30 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 30 of Revelation 18:19, so the Greek word θαλάσσῃ (thalassêi) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Rev.18.19.W30, which extends further down to each syllable (Rev.18.19.W30.S1) and character.