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4950 - Surtis

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Strong's Concordance

Original word: σύρτις
Transliteration: Surtis
Definition (short): Syrtis
Definition (full): Syrtis -- |shoal|, the name of two large sandbanks on the Lybian coast

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from suró
Definition: |shoal,| Syrtis, the name of two large sandbanks on the Lybian coast
NASB Translation: Syrtis (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From suro; a shoal (from the sand drawn thither by the waves), i.e. The Syrtis Major or great bay on the north coast of Africa -- quicksands.

see GREEK suro

References

Strong's 4950: 1 Occurrences
KJV: Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
NASB: After they had hoisted it up, they used supporting cables in undergirding the ship; and fearing that they might run aground on the shallows of Syrtis, they let down the sea anchor and in this way let themselves be driven along.