Lexical Summary Syrtis: "shoal", Syrtis, the name of two large sandbanks on the Lybian coast Original Word: ΣύρτιςTransliteration: Syrtis Phonetic Spelling: (soor'-tis) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: "shoal", Syrtis, the name of two large sandbanks on the Lybian coast Meaning: Syrtis -- "shoal", the name of two large sandbanks on the Lybian coast Strong's Concordance quicksands, SyrtisFrom suro; a shoal (from the sand drawn thither by the waves), i.e. The Syrtis Major or great bay on the north coast of Africa -- quicksands. see GREEK suro Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4950: ΣύρτιςΣύρτις (Lachmann Σύρτις; cf. Tdf. Proleg., p. 103; Chandler § 650), Συρτισεως, accusative Σύρτιν, ἡ (σύρω, which see (others from Arabicsert, i. e. 'desert'; others besides, see Pape, Eigennamen, under the word)), Syrtis, the name of two places in the African or Libyan Sea between Carthage and Cyrenaica, full of shallows and sandbanks, and therefore destructive to ships; the western Syrtis, between the islands Cercina and Meninx (or the promontories of Zeitha and Brachodes), was called Syrtis minor, the eastern (extending from the promontory of Cephalae on the Winers Grammar, to that of Boreum on the E.) was called Syrtis major (sinus Psyllicus); this latter must be the one referred to in Acts 27:17, for upon this the ship in which Paul was sailing might easily be cast after leaving Crete. (Cf. B. D. under the word |
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