Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

You didn't look far enough. Yam-Suph is used at the beginning of the story
(13:18): "God led the people through the desert of Yam-Suph" and at its end
(15:22): "Moses led Israel from Yam-suph...". But it is strange that the
name is not used in between.

Yigal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shoshanna Walker" <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
> Interesting.  I looked it up today, and found that in the entire
> chapter describing the event, unless I missed something, the Torah
> only uses the word "sea" with no name, and only in Moshe's song, the
> following chapter, is Yam Suf used.  Rashi says nothing about it, I'm
> going to look in Mikraot Gedolot, and let you know if anyone says
> anything about it.
>
> shoshanna
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