Genesis 10:20
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
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Countries
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Luke 21:21
Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
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אֶרֶץ
ʼerets · eh'-rets
48 times translated as this KJV form2,504 total Strong's occurrences
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
Strong's KJV usage: × common, country, earth, field, ground, land, × natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 10:20Strong's last: Daniel 11:42
Open full H776 profile →χώρα
chṓra · kho'-rah
1 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences
room, i.e. a space of territory (more or less extensive; often including its inhabitants)
Strong's KJV usage: :--coast, county, fields, ground, land, region.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 21:21Strong's last: Luke 21:21
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merchâq · mer-khawk'
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
remoteness, i.e. (concretely) a distant place; often (adverbially) from afar
Strong's KJV usage: (a-, dwell in, very) far (country, off). See also 1023.
Strong's first: Zechariah 10:9Strong's last: Zechariah 10:9
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nepheth · neh'-feth
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a height
Strong's KJV usage: country.
Strong's first: Joshua 17:11Strong's last: Joshua 17:11
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H776
Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
H776
And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
H776
Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
H776
Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
H776
Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
H776
Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
H776
And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
H776
I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
H776
And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
H776
And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
H776
I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
H776
Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
H776
And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
H776
Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
H776
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
H776
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
H776
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
H776
And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
H776
And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
H776
I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
H776
And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
H776
Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
H776
And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
H776
For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
English meaning and historical usage.
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country
COUNTRY, noun [Latin , land adjacent to a city. Hence the citizen says, let us go into the country The Latin has conterraneus, a countryman.]
1. Properly, the land lying about or near a city; the territory situated in the vicinity of a city. Our friend has a seat in the country a few miles from town. See Mark 5:1. Luke 8:26. Hence,
2. The whole territory of a kingdom or state, as opposed to city. We say, the gentleman has a seat in the country at any distance from town indefinitely. Hence,
3. Any tract of land, or inhabited land; any region, as distinguished from other regions; a kingdom, state or lesser district. We speak of all the countries of Europe or Asia.
And they came into the country of Moab. Ruth 1:1.
4. The kingdom , state or territory in which one is born; the land of nativity; or the particular district indefinitely in which one is born. America is my country or Connecticut is my country
Laban said, it must not be so done in our country Genesis 29:26.
5. The region in which one resides.
He sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country Hebrews 11:9.
6. Land, as opposed to water; or inhabited territory.
The shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country Acts 27:27.
7. The inhabitants of a region.
All the country wept with a loud voice. 2 Samuel 15:23.
8. A place of residence; a region of permanent habitation.
They declare plainly that they seek a country Hebrews 11:9.
They desire a better country a heavenly. Hebrews 11:9.
9. In law, a jury or jurors; as, trial by the country per pais.
COUNTRY, adjective
1. Pertaining to the country or territory at a distance from a city; rural; rustic; as a country town; a country seat; a country squire; a country life; the country party, as opposed to city party.
2. Pertaining or peculiar to ones own country
He spoke in his country language.
3. Rude; ignorant.
COUNTRY-dance, and erroneous orthography. [See Contra-dance.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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