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Island
Verses
29 results- VerseRevelation 16:20Then every island fled, and no mountain could be found.
- VerseActs 27:26However, we must run aground on some island.”
- VerseActs 28:1Once we were safely ashore, we learned that the island was called Malta.
- VerseActs 27:16Passing to the lee of a small island called Cauda, we barely managed to secure the lifeboat.
- VerseActs 27:14But it was not long before a cyclone called the Northeaster swept down across the island.
People
1 resultPlaces
5 results- PlaceCreteMediterranean island where Paul left Titus to set in order the things that are wanting and appoint elders in every city (Titus 1:5); its ill repute quoted from its own prophet…
- PlaceCyprusBarnabas's home island and the first stop of the first missionary journey, from Salamis to Paphos, where the proconsul Sergius Paulus believed and the sorcerer Elymas was…
- PlacePatmosSmall rocky island of the Aegean where John was exiled "for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus" and received the Revelation on the Lord's day.
- PlaceMaltaThe island where Paul's ship ran aground after fourteen days adrift, where a viper did him no harm, the governor's father was healed, and the crew wintered three months before…
- PlaceTyrePhoenician island-fortress and merchant power, judged in Amos 1:9-10 and at length in Ezekiel 26-28.
Words (Strong's)
18 results- WordG3520 νῆσος · nēsos (Greek)an island. The Greek word stands 9 times in the original text.
- WordH339 אִי · ʼîy (Hebrew)properly, a habitable spot (as desirable). The Hebrew word stands 36 times in the original text.
- WordH336 אִי · ʼîy (Hebrew)not. The Hebrew word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordG3519 νησίον · nēsíon (Greek)an islet. The Greek word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordG2914 Κρήτη · Krḗtē (Greek)Crete, an island in the Mediterranean. The Greek word stands 5 times in the original text.
Topics
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8 results- VoiceWalafrid StraboWalafrid was born about 808 in Swabia, of poor parents, and was given as a child to the island monastery of Reichenau on Lake Constance. The nickname Strabo means squint-eyed…
- VoiceCaesarius of ArlesCaesarius was born about 468 at Chalon-sur-Saône in Burgundy. At eighteen he asked his bishop for the clerical tonsure; two years later he left for Lérins, the island monastery…
- VoiceJohn of KarpathosJohn came from Karpathos, a long thin island in the Aegean between Crete and Rhodes. He is usually placed in the seventh century, and some accounts make him a bishop of the…
- VoiceHilary of ArlesHilary was born about 403 into a wealthy Gallo-Roman family and was headed for a career in public life. His kinsman Honoratus, who had founded the monastery on the island of…
- VoiceTheophylact of OhridTheophylact was born about 1050 on the island of Euboea, came to Constantinople, and studied under Michael Psellos, the outstanding scholar of eleventh-century Byzantium. He…
Apocrypha (study resources)
4 results- Study resourceSirach 43:23By his counsel he appeaseth the deep, and planteth islands therein.
- Study resourceSirach 47:16Thy name went far unto the islands; and for thy peace thou wast beloved.
- Study resource1 Enoch 77:8Seven great islands I saw in the sea and in the mainland: two in the mainland and five in the Great Sea.
- Study resource1 Enoch 53:1There mine eyes saw a deep valley with open mouths, and all who dwell on the earth and sea and islands shall bring to him gifts and presents and tokens of homage, but that deep…