Bible Dictionary
Isle
Isle is a biblical term for an island, inhabited land, or maritime district. It may refer broadly to the Mediterranean coastlands, including regions of Greece and Asia Minor.
Definition
An isle is habitable land contrasted with water. From this basic sense, the term extends to a maritime district or coast, whether the area belongs to a continent or to an actual island.
Biblical Usage
The term describes the Mediterranean shore and the coasts of Elishah. In the supplied material, Elishah’s coasts are identified with Greece and Asia Minor.
Historical Background
Biblical usage is broader than the modern sense of a small island, including continental coastal regions and other inhabited maritime districts.
Scripture References
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Historical Bible Dictionaries
Smith's Bible Dictionary
The radical sense of the Hebrew word seems to be “habitable places,” as opposed to water, and in this sense it occurs in (Isaiah 42:15) Hence it means secondarily any maritime district, whether belonging to a continent or to an island; thus it is used of the shore of the Mediterranean, (Isaiah 20:6; 23:2,6) and of the coasts of Elishah, (Ezekiel 27:7) i.e. of Greece and Asia Minor.