A large island of the eastern Mediterranean, originally known as Chittim (see Chittim); the birthplace of Barnabas (Acts 4: 36); one of the places to which Christian converts went during the persecution that followed the death of Stephen (Acts 11: 19-20); visited by Paul and Barnabas (Acts 13: 4; Acts 15: 39; Acts 21: 3-16; Acts 27: 4).