Red sea. Hebrew. Yam suph. weedy, or reedy. Eng. "Red" comes from the Greeks reading Edom (whose land it washed) as an appellative instead of. proper name (Esau or Edom. red, Genesis 25:25). Called "red "from Septuagint. Dried up fifty miles north of present shore. Will quite dry up at future Exodus. Isaiah 11:15; Isaiah 11:16; Isaiah 19:5.
harnessed. armed, as Joshua 1:14. Jdg 7:11. 1 Chronicles 7:21. or marshalled by fives, as in 2 Kings 1:9; Isaiah 3:3 (the number of grace, see App-10). To this day five is an evil number in Egypt. Whichever is the meaning, both point to order and organization. They were an ordered "host" (Exodus 12:41), and not. disorderly rabble.