Island
Holman Bible Dictionary [1]
Genesis 10:5 Esther 10:1 Psalm 97:1 Isaiah 11:11 Jeremiah 2:10 Isaiah 41:1 Isaiah 51:5 Isaiah 66:19 Jeremiah 31:10 Isaiah 42:4 Isaiah 41:5 Isaiah 49:1
Scripture mentions many islands by name: Arvad ( Ezekiel 27:8 ,Ezekiel 27:8, 27:11 ) is an island two miles offshore from northern Phoenicia. Clauda or Cauda (NRSV) is a small island off Crete ( Acts 27:16 ). Chios ( Acts 20:15 ) is an island off the coast of Ionia. Coos or Cos ( Acts 21:1 NIV) is an island 50 miles northwest of Rhodes. Crete (the Old Testament Caphtor, Jeremiah 47:4; Amos 9:7 ) is an island 152 miles long located to the southeast of Greece ( Titus 1:5 , Titus 1:12 ). Cyprus (home of the Old Testament Chittim, Jeremiah 2:10; Ezekiel 27:6 ) is an island 75 miles long located toward the eastern end of the Mediterranean ( Acts 4:36; Acts 11:19-20 among others). Melita or Malta (NAS) is an island located 50 miles southwest of Sicily ( Acts 27:39-28:10 ). Patmos is an island off the coast of Ionia west of Samos ( Revelation 1:9 ). Rhodes is an island southwest of Asia Minor ( Acts 21:1 ). Samos is an island located off the Ionian coast twelve miles southwest of Ephesus ( Acts 20:15 ). Sardinia is a western Mediterranean island south of Corsica. Tyre ( Ezekiel 26:2 ) was a famous Phoenician island city.
Easton's Bible Dictionary [2]
Isaiah 42:4,10,12,15 Jeremiah 47:4 Isaiah 20:6 Jeremiah 2:10 Ezekiel 27:6,7Chittim Isaiah 11:11 Genesis 10:5 Psalm 72:10 Ezekiel 26:15,18 27:3,35 Daniel 11:18
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( v. t.) To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep.
(2): ( n.) See Isle, n., 2.
(3): ( n.) Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice.
(4): ( v. t.) To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle.
(5): ( n.) A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent.
King James Dictionary [4]
ISLAND, n. 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.
1. A tract of land surrounded by water. 2. A large mass of floating ice, is called an island of ice.
