Sea
Archimandrite Nikifor’s Biblical Encyclopedia
(Gen. 1:10)—this word is applied by the sacred writers to lakes, rivers, and, in general, to every large gathering of waters, as well as to what are properly called seas (Is. 21:1, Jer. 51:36). In the first-cited passage in the prophet Isaiah it is used to designate the river Nile, at that part of it which is called the Delta. Among the Hebrews, “sea” and “west” meant one and the same thing, because of the western position of the seas relative to them, with reference to the Mediterranean Sea. The seas mentioned in Holy Scripture are the following: