SEA — and, by extension, Hebrew's standing word for WEST, the direction the Mediterranean actually lies from a speaker standing in Canaan. Deuteronomy 33:23 blesses Naphtali with ‘the yam and the south’, kept here as ‘the west and the south’ rather than the literal ‘sea’, which would leave an English reader to work out the geography alone. → first discussed at Deut 33:23