Great Sea

Identified as

Mediterranean Sea

Certainty

Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)

Coordinates

31.805° N, 34.170° E

Mediterranean Sea· Great Sea

• גָּדוֹל·Great Sea
• פְּלִשְׁתִּי·Sea of the Philistines

1. Exodus 23:31פְּלִשְׁתִּי · Sea of the Philistines
   And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
2. Numbers 34:6גָּדוֹל · Great Sea
   Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.
3. Numbers 34:7גָּדוֹל · Great Sea
   Your northern border will run from the Great Sea directly to Mount Hor,
4. Joshua 1:4גָּדוֹל · Great Sea
   Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.
5. Joshua 9:1גָּדוֹל · Great Sea
   Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—
6. Joshua 15:12גָּדוֹל · Great Sea
   And the western border was the coastline of the Great Sea. These are the boundaries around the clans of the descendants of Judah.
7. Joshua 15:47גָּדוֹל · Great Sea
   Ashdod, with its towns and villages; Gaza, with its towns and villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt and the coastline of the Great Sea.
8. Joshua 23:4גָּדוֹל · Great Sea
   See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.
9. Ezekiel 47:10גָּדוֹל · Great Sea
   Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.
10. Ezekiel 47:15גָּדוֹל · Great Sea
    This shall be the boundary of the land: On the north side it will extend from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon through Lebo-hamath to Zedad,
11. Ezekiel 47:19גָּדוֹל · Great Sea
    On the south side it will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, and along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea. This will be the southern boundary.
12. Ezekiel 47:20גָּדוֹל · Great Sea
    And on the west side, the Great Sea will be the boundary up to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This will be the western boundary.
13. Ezekiel 48:28גָּדוֹל · Great Sea
    The southern border of Gad will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, then along the Brook of Egypt and out to the Great Sea.