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Quicksands
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
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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.
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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.
kwik'-sandz.
See SYRTIS.