The Exodus, Red Sea


Where is the Red Sea? The body of water referred to as the “Red Sea” is termed in Hebrew the “Reed Sea”—a term that can be used for a number of different bodies of water.

 

King James Concordance

H5488             sûph          Soof סוּף         

  Probably of Egyptian origin; a reed, especially the papyrus: - flag. Red [sea], weed.

Total KJV Occurrences: 28

red, 24          Exo_10:19, Exo_13:18, Exo_15:4, Exo_15:22, Exo_23:31, Num_14:25, Num_21:4, Num_33:10-11 (2), Deu_1:40, Deu_2:1, Deu_11:4, Jos_2:10, Jos_4:23, Jos_24:6, Jdg_11:16, 1Ki_9:26, Neh_9:9, Psa_106:7, Psa_106:9, Psa_106:22, Psa_136:13, Psa_136:15, Jer_49:21

flags, 3                Exo_2:3, Isa_19:5-6 (2)

weeds, 1             Jon_2:5

(Exo 2:3 KJV)  And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

 

(Jonah 2:5 KJV)  The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

 

(Num 33:10, 11 KJV)   And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea. And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

 

(1 Ki 9:26 KJV)  And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.

 

(Exo 13:18 KJV)  But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.

 

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon

Reeds and weeds (including papyrus) grow at the edge, or lip, of ponds and stream.

Identifying the body of water called the Yam Suph

Bible scholars have suggested different bodies of water as candidates:

  1)   Lake Menzaleh

  2)   Lake Sirbonis

  3)   Lake Ballah

  4)   Lake Timsah

  5)   Bitter Lakes

  6)   Gulf of Suez

  7)   Gulf of Aqaba

 

Possible Locations for the Reed Sea Crossing
Where are they entangled in the land and shut in by wilderness?

 

Here are Four possible locations

Where wore they after going throw the Reed Sea?

 

That leaves two localizations left.


They Journey from Rameses to Succoth to Etham.

God told them to turn, What way did they turn?

Lake   Sirbonis ?

Gulf of  Suez ?