The Hebrew term for the place of the crossing is Yam Suph. Although this has traditionally been thought to refer to the salt water inlet located between Africa and the Arabian peninsula, known in English as the Red Sea, this is a mistranslation from the Greek Septuagint, and Hebrew suph never means red but rather sometimes means reeds. (While it is not relevant to the identification of the body of water, suph also puns on the Hebrew suphah (storm) and soph (end), referring to the events of the Exodus).