Noun kyma (wave) in the Bible

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

8: 24A windstorm arose on the sea, so great that the boat was being swamped by the waves (kyma); but he was asleep.
14: 24but by this time the boat, battered by the waves (kyma), was far from the land, for the wind was against them.

Mark

4: 37A great windstorm arose, and the waves (kyma) beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped.

Acts

27: 41But striking a reef, they ran the ship aground; the bow stuck and remained immovable, but the stern was being broken up by the force of the waves (kyma).

Jude

1: 13wild waves (kyma) of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.

Exodus (LXX)

15: 8And by the breath of thine anger the water parted asunder; the waters were congealed as a wall, the waves were congealed in the midst of the sea.

Ezekiel (LXX)

26: 3therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Sor, and I will bring up many nations against thee, as the sea comes up with its waves (kyma).

Isaiah (LXX)

48: 18And if thou hadst hearkened to my commandments, then would thy peace have been like a river, and thy righteousness as a wave (kyma) of the sea.
51: 15for I am thy God, that troubles the sea, and causes the waves (kyma) thereof to roar: the Lord of hosts is my name.

Jeremiah (LXX)

5: 22will ye not be afraid of me? saith the Lord; and will ye not fear before me, who have set the sand for a bound to the sea, as a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it: yea, it shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves (kyma) shall roar, but not pass over it.
28: 42The sea has come up upon Babylon with the sound of its waves (kyma), and she is covered.
38: 36Thus saith the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the moon and the stars for a light by night, and makes a roaring in the sea, so that the waves (kyma) thereof roar; the Lord Almighty is his name:

Jonah (LXX)

2: 4Thou didst cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all thy billows and thy waves (kyma) have passed upon me.

Job (LXX)

6: 15My nearest relations have not regarded me; they have passed me by like a failing brook, or like a wave (kyma).
11: 16And thou shalt forget trouble, as a wave (kyma) that has passed by; and thou shalt not be scared.
38: 11And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, but thy waves (kyma) shall be confined within thee.

Psalms (LXX)

41 (42): 8Deep calls to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy billows and thy waves (kyma) have gone over me.
64 (65): 8who troublest the depth of the sea, the sounds of its waves (kyma).
88 (89): 10Thou rulest the power of the sea; and thou calmest the tumult of its waves (kyma).
106 (107): 25He speaks, and the stormy wind arises, and its waves (kyma) are lifted up.
106 (107): 29And he commands the storm, and it is calmed into a gentle breeze, and its waves (kyma) are still.

Psalms of Solomon (LXX)

2: 27His corpse tossed on the waves (kyma) in utter disgrace, - And there was no one to bury him, because God shamefully destroyed him.

Sirah (LXX)

24: 6In the waves (kyma) of the sea and in all the earth, and in every people and nation, I got a possession.
29: 17Suretiship hath undone many of good estate, and shaken them as a wave (kyma) of the sea:

Wisdom (LXX)

5: 10and as a ship that passeth over the waves (kyma) of the water, which when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the pathway of the keel in the waves (kyma):
14: 1Again, one preparing himself to sail, and about to pass through the raging waves (kyma), calleth upon a piece of wood more rotten than the vessel that carrieth him.
14: 3But thy providence, O Father, governeth it: for thou hast made a way in the sea, and a safe path in the waves (kyma);

2 Maccabees (LXX)

9: 8And thus he that a little afore thought he might command the waves (kyma) of the sea, (so proud was he beyond the condition of men) and weigh the high mountains in a balance, was now cast on the ground, and carried in an horselitter, shewing forth unto all the manifest power of God.

4 Maccabees (LXX: See presentation)

13: 6For just as by means of towers projecting in front of harbours men break the threatening waves (kyma), and thus assure a still course to vessels entering port,