westwind] Heb. a wind of the Sea. Because the Mediterraneum sea is Westward, in respect of Canaan, and of Egypt: hence it is, that the Hebrews signifie the West by the Sea. cast them] Hebr. fastned. Red sea] Acts 7:36. Hebrews 11:29. In the Heb. it is the sea of Bulrushes: the Greek and Latine usually render it the Red sea, so called as some think, because the water is red. Adrich. Delph. Theat. pag. 123. Some, because it seemeth red, by reason of the red sand, or gravell; so the Geneva: or from a red mountains neere unto it: but it is rather thought, (by the most Judicious) that it is so called from a King who had his Dominion neere unto it, whose name was Erythras, (Erythros in Greeke signifying red) which may be Edom, that is Esau, the red sonne of Isaac: See 2. Annot. in Gen. 100: 25. 5: 30. and Fulleri Miscellan. lib. 4. cap. 20. &Sixt. Amam. Antibuc. dissertat. de Nom. Jehovah, p. 531.