'Island' in the Bible
When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came across a sorcerer, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.
After sighting Cyprus and leaving that island on our left, we continued our voyage to Syria and put in at Tyre; for there the ship was to unload her cargo.
But not long afterward, a fierce wind called the “northeaster” rushed down from the island.
And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:
Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.
In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.
So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed: