Coastland
אִיStrong’s H0339i
Appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament
In short
I is the Hebrew word usually translated “islands”, “o islands” and “coastland”. It appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament.
“After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.”
Meaning
- Coast, island, shore, region
How it's translated
- islands 9
- the islands 6
- o islands 3
- coastland 2
- in the islands 2
- from islands of 2
- coastlands of 1
- and islands of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 17
- Ezekiel 8
- Jeremiah 4
- Psalms 2
- Genesis 1
- Esther 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 10:5By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
- Esther 10:1And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.
- Psalms 72:10The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
- Psalms 97:1The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.
- Isaiah 11:11And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
- Isaiah 20:6And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
Hebrew dictionary
אִי i · coastland
coast, island, shore, region
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “island” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ISLAND, noun
i'land. [This is an absurd compound of isle and land, that is, land-in-water land, or ieland-land. There is no such legitimate word in English, and it is found only in books. The genuine word always used in discourse is our native word, Sax.ealong, D.G. eiland.]
- A tract of land surrounded by water.
- A large mass of floating ice, is called an island of ice.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.