Is the word tsunami in the bible?

Answer 1

No, it is a word which came into the English language from the Japanese and was unknown to the authors of The Bible translations.

In the King James version

The word - wave - appears 32 times, but only one of these refers to the water meaning of the word.

• Jam 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

The word - waves - appears 26 times,

1. 2 Sam 22:5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
2. Job 9:8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
3. Job 38:11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
4. Psa 42:7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
5. Psa 65:7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
6. Psa 88:7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
7. Psa 89:9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
8. Psa 93:3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
9. Psa 93:4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
10. Psa 107:25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
11. Psa 107:29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
12. Isa 48:18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
13. Isa 51:15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
14. Jer 5:22 Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
15. Jer 31:35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
16. Jer 51:42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
17. Jer 51:55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
18. Eze 26:3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
19. Jon 2:3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
20. Zec 10:11 And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
21. Mat 8:24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
22. Mat 14:24 But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.
23. Mar 4:37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.
24. Luk 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
25. Act 27:41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
26. Jud 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.