אִי
ʼîy · ee
properly, a habitable spot (as desirable); dry land, a coast, an island
Lexicon
Derivation: from H183 (אָוָה);
properly, a habitable spot (as desirable); dry land, a coast, an island
- properly, a habitable spot (as desirable)
- dry land, a coast, an island
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: country, isle, island.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › the hand that works
Strength, the leader of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אִי above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
36 occurrences · 36 OT · 0 NT · 29 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the isles5 · 15%
- of the isle2 · 6%
- in the isles2 · 6%
- of the isles2 · 6%
- isles2 · 6%
- by these were the isles1 · 3%
- and upon the isles1 · 3%
- and of the isles1 · 3%
- of isles1 · 3%
- and from the islands1 · 3%
- of this isle1 · 3%
- before me, o islands1 · 3%
- and the isles1 · 3%
- in the islands1 · 3%
- islands1 · 3%
- o isles1 · 3%
- to the islands1 · 3%
- surely the isles1 · 3%
- to the isles1 · 3%
- it in the isles1 · 3%
- of the country1 · 3%
- shall not the isles1 · 3%
- now shall the isles1 · 3%
- yea, the isles1 · 3%
- brought out of the isles1 · 3%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.