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Reference: Isle
Smith
Isle.
The radical sense of the Hebrew word seems to be "habitable places," as opposed to water, and in this sense it occurs in
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,
and of the coasts of Elishah,
i.e. of Greece and Asia Minor.