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    Thalassa

    thah-LAS-ah

    Greek
    Girl
    Meaning-based name
    Meaning
    Sea; Ocean
    Origin
    Greek
    Is it in the Bible?
    No — the name Thalassa does not appear in the King James Bible. Christian families use it for its meaning, "Sea; Ocean", and for the biblical themes that meaning touches, not because anyone in Scripture is called Thalassa.
    First appears in
    Does not appear in the King James text
    Peak US usage
    No recorded United States usage in the 1880–2008 records
    Spiritual meaning
    Thalassa holds God's precious thoughts — more than sand, sins cast into her depths, compassion returning, the sea whose immensity mirrors God's unfathomable love.
    Verses on this meaning
    • Psalm 139:17-18

      "How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand."

    • Micah 7:19

      "He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea."

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