אִיʼîy
אִי: coast, region, coast, border, region (Isaiah 20:5; Isaiah 23:2; Isaiah 20:6; Jeremiah 47:4; Job 22:30)
Pronunciation: ee · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H339
Meanings
אִי: isle, coast, see I. אָוָה
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 36 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 10:5 Their descendants became the seafaring peoples that spread out to various lands, each identified by its own language, clan, and national identity.
- Esther 10:1 King Xerxes imposed a tribute throughout his empire, even to the distant coastlands.
- Psalms 72:10 The western kings of Tarshish and other distant lands will bring him tribute. The eastern kings of Sheba and Seba will bring him gifts.
- Psalms 97:1 The Lord is king! Let the earth rejoice! Let the farthest coastlands be glad.
- Isaiah 11:11 In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to bring back the remnant of his people— those who remain in Assyria and northern Egypt; in southern Egypt, Ethiopia, and Elam; in Babylonia, Hamath, and all the distant coastlands.
- Isaiah 20:6 They will say, ‘If this can happen to Egypt, what chance do we have? We were counting on Egypt to protect us from the king of Assyria.’”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).