G4950 – surtis – Σύρτις – quicksands
- Strong’s ID:
- G4950
- Greek Word:
- Σύρτις
- Transliteration:
- surtis
- Pronunciation:
- soor’-tis
- Part of Speech:
- noun proper feminine
- Usage Count:
- 1
- Search:
- Find “surtis” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G4951; a shoal (from the sand drawn thither by the waves), i.e. the Syrtis Major or great bay on the N. coast of Africa:—quicksands.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) Syrtis, the name of two places in the African or Libyan Sea between Carthage and Cyrenaicia, 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 Syris minor, the eastern (extending from the promontories of Cephalae on the west to that of Boreum on the east) was called Syris major; 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
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.