Reference: Isles
Fausets
Hebrew iyim, from aawah, "to inhabit." Shore land at opposed to sea, dry land as opposed to rivers. Isa 42:15, "I will make the rivers islands." God will dry up the fountains of the pagan idolatry and oracles, i.e. their schools, doctrines, and institutions, the symbol of which is, water (Vitringa). So the word is applied to all lands reached from Palestine by sea. Jer 25:22, "the isles which are beyond the sea." Ge 10:5, "the isles of the Gentiles" (Ps 72:10; Isa 41:5; Zep 2:11). Also Chittim, i.e. Cyprus and Mediterranean coasts (Jer 2:10; Nu 24:24; Jer 47:4 margin, "the isle of Caphtor," i.e. Crete).
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From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to its language, according to their families, by their nations.
Ships will come from the coast of Kittim, and will afflict Asshur, and will afflict Eber, and he will also perish forever."
The kings of Tarshish and the coastlands will offer gifts; the kings of Sheba and Seba will bring tribute.
The coastlands see and are afraid; the whole earth trembles; they approach and come.
I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, and dry up pools of water.
Go west across the sea to the coasts of Cyprus and see. Send someone east to Kedar and have them look carefully. See if such a thing as this has ever happened:
all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon; all the kings of the coastlands along the sea;
For the time has come to destroy all the Philistines. The time has come to destroy all the help that remains for Tyre and Sidon. For I, the Lord, will destroy the Philistines, that remnant that came from the island of Crete.
The Lord will terrify them, for he will weaken all the gods of the earth. All the distant nations will worship the Lord in their own lands.