parting Red Sea
Moses's miraculous crossing
Parting the Red Sea refers to the biblical miracle in which Moses divided the waters to allow the Israelites to escape Egypt.
The phrase has become a metaphor for any dramatic clearing of obstacles or creating a path where none existed: The crowd parted like the Red Sea when the celebrity walked through.
It suggests divine or extraordinary intervention making the impossible possible.
- MosesHebrew prophet, liberator
- ExodusMass departure from a place
- IsraelitesAncient Hebrew people
- PharaohEgyptian royal title
- EgyptNortheastern African nation
let my people go · miracle · divine intervention · pillar of fire · staff · waters · crossing · divine · biblical · plagues · freedom · escape · promised land · deliverance · Charlton Heston · walls · chariots · commandments
parting Red Seanatural disaster
Catastrophic environmental event
natural phenomenon · earthquake · tsunami · flood · hurricane
parting Red SeaSodom and Gomorrah
Destroyed cities symbolizing vice
entrapment · plague · dead end · fire and brimstone · Titanic sinking
parting, part, parts, parted, partial, partially, partition, partible, party