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Quicksand(s)
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kwik'-sandz
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
found only in Acts
27:17 , the rendering of the Greek Syrtis. On the north coast of Africa were
two localities dangerous to sailors, called the Greater and Lesser Syrtis. The
former of these is probably here meant. It lies between Tripoli and Barca, and
near Cyrene. The Lesser Syrtis lay farther to the west.
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
(no entry)
Smith's Bible Dictionary
more properly THE
SYRTIS, ( Acts
27:17 ) the broad a deep bight on the north African coast between Carthage
and Cyrene. There were properly two Syrtes--the eastern or larger, now called
the Gulf of Sidra, and the western or smaller, now the Gulf of Cabes . It is the
former to which our attention is directed in this passage of the Acts.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
kwik'-sandz.
(FROM SYRTIS)
sir'-tis (surtis):
The Revised Version (British and American) form for "quicksands" in Acts
27:17. These sandbanks, off the northern coast of Africa, have from
early times been regarded as a source of danger to mariners. Virgil refers to
them (Aen. iv.40 f). In Paul's voyage, the ship, driven by a tempestuous wind,
Euraquilo, was in peril of being cast-upon them.
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