Bible Dictionary

Coast

border, with no more reference to lands bordering on the sea than to any other bordering lands.

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

border, with no more reference to lands bordering on the sea than to any other bordering lands.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary

COAST (from the Latin costa, "a rib") is often used in the English Bible for "border," and has no reference to the sea. Jud 11:20; 1 Sam 5:6; Matt 8:34.