My oldie-but-goodie Gesenius lexicon says "sea-weed, sedge, Jon. 2,6. Hence YAM-SW.P, the sea of sedge, i.e. the Arabian Gulf or Red Sea,
which abounds in seaweed..." I've never been there so I can't verify
this, but considering how long the lexicon has endured and how many
others have been based on it, I would suspect that he did his homework. ...
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