i · coast, island

What it means

i (אִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “coast, island”.

The lands along the sea.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Lands across the sea, far away, reached by ship.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• coastlands ×29
• coastland ×4
• coasts ×1
• island ×1
• islands ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Esther×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×17
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×9
• Daniel×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 10:5

  From these the coastlands of the nations separated into their lands, each according to his language, according to their families, in their nations.

• Esther 10:1

  And King Ahasuerus imposed tribute on the land and the islands of the sea.

• Psalms 72:10

  The kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands will pay tribute; the kings of Sheba and Seba will offer gifts.

• Psalms 97:1

  YHWH reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad.

• Isaiah 11:11

  And it will happen on that day that Adonai will again extend his hand a second time to acquire the remnant of his people that remains, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.

• Isaiah 20:6

  And the inhabitant of this coastland will say on that day, ‘Look, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from before the king of Assyria! And how will we escape?’”

• Isaiah 23:2

  Be silent, inhabitants of the coastland, the merchant of Sidon, crossing the sea, filled you.

• Isaiah 23:6

  Cross over to Tarshish; wail, inhabitants of the coastland!

• Isaiah 24:15

  Therefore in the regions of light honor YHWH, in the coastlands of the sea, the name of YHWH, Elohim of Israel.

• Isaiah 40:15

  Look, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and like dust on the balance they are regarded; look, the coastlands he lifts up like fine powder.

• Isaiah 41:1

  Be silent before me, coastlands, and let the peoples renew their strength; let them come near, then let them speak; together to judgment let us draw near.

• Isaiah 41:5

  The coastlands saw and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they drew near and came.

• Isaiah 42:4

  He will not grow dim nor be broken, until he establishes justice in the earth; and for his instruction the coastlands will wait.

• Isaiah 42:10

  Sing to YHWH a new song, his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and what fills it, coastlands and their inhabitants.

• Isaiah 42:12

  Let them give to YHWH glory, and his praise in the coastlands let them declare.

• Isaiah 42:15

  I will lay waste mountains and hills, and all their vegetation I will dry up; and I will turn rivers into coastlands, and the pools I will dry up.

• Isaiah 49:1

  Listen to me, coastlands, and pay attention, peoples from afar: YHWH called me from the womb; from the inward parts of my mother he made mention of my name.

• Isaiah 51:5

  Near is my righteousness, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; for me the coastlands will wait, and on my arm they will hope.

• Isaiah 59:18

  According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay: fury to his adversaries, retribution to his enemies; to the coastlands he will repay retribution.

• Isaiah 60:9

  For the coastlands will wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish in the lead, to bring your sons from far away, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of YHWH your Elohim, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.

• Isaiah 66:19

  And I will set among them a sign, and I will send from them those who escaped to the nations: Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, Tubal and Javan, the distant coastlands that have not heard my fame nor seen my glory; and they will declare my glory among the nations.

• Jeremiah 2:10

  For cross over to the coasts of Kittim and see, and send to Kedar and consider carefully, and see whether there has been anything like this.

• Jeremiah 25:22

  and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland that is beyond the sea;

• Jeremiah 31:10

  Hear the word of YHWH, nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away, and say: ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and he will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’

• Jeremiah 47:4

  because of the day that is coming to devastate all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and from Sidon every survivor who helps; for YHWH is devastating the Philistines, the remnant of the island of Caphtor.

• Ezekiel 26:15

  Thus says Adonai YHWH to Tyre: Will not the coastlands quake at the noise of your fall, when the mortally wounded groan, when the killing is carried out in your midst?

• Ezekiel 26:18

  Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall, and the coastlands that are in the sea are dismayed at your departure.’

• Ezekiel 27:3

  and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrances of the sea, trader of the peoples to many coastlands: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Tyre, you have said, “I am perfection of beauty.”

• Ezekiel 27:6

  Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; your planking they made of ivory set in boxwood from the coastlands of Kittim.

• Ezekiel 27:7

  Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt was your sail, to serve you as a banner; blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah was your awning.

• Ezekiel 27:15

  The sons of Dedan were your traders; many coastlands were the market of your hand; horns of ivory and ebony they brought back as your gift.

• Ezekiel 27:35

  All the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled at you, and their kings bristle with horror; faces are troubled.

• Ezekiel 39:6

  And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in the coastlands securely; and they will know that I am YHWH.

• Daniel 11:18

  And he will turn his face to the coastlands and capture many; but a commander will put an end to his reproach for him; moreover his reproach he will turn back on him.

• Zephaniah 2:11

  Fearsome will be YHWH against them, for he will make lean all the gods of the earth; and they will bow down to him, each from his place, all the coastlands of the nations.

And 1 more times.