Genesis 12:1
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
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Hebrews 11:16
But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
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11 verses
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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אֶרֶץ
ʼerets · eh'-rets
92 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 12:1Strong's last: Zechariah 8:7
Open full H776 profile →שָׂדֶה
sâdeh · saw-deh'
17 times translated as this KJV form333 total Strong's occurrences
a field (as flat)
Strong's KJV usage: country, field, ground, land, soil, × wild.
Strong's first: Genesis 14:7Strong's last: Hosea 12:12
Open full H7704 profile →χώρα
chṓra · kho'-rah
14 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: Matthew 2:12Strong's last: Acts 27:27
Open full G5561 profile →ἀγρός
agrós · ag-ros'
8 times translated as this KJV form36 total Strong's occurrences
a field (as a drive for cattle); genitive case, the country; specially, a farm, i.e. hamlet
Strong's KJV usage: :--country, farm, piece of ground, land.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Mark 5:14Strong's last: Luke 23:26
Open full G68 profile →πατρίς
patrís · pat-rece'
8 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
a father-land, i.e. native town; (figuratively) heavenly home
Strong's KJV usage: :--(own) country.
Strong's first: Matthew 13:54Strong's last: Hebrews 11:14
Open full G3968 profile →אֶזְרָח
ʼezrâch · ez-rawkh'
5 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
a spontaneous growth, i.e. native (tree or persons)
Strong's KJV usage: bay tree, (home-) born (in the land), of the (one's own) country (nation).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 16:29Strong's last: Ezekiel 47:22
Open full H249 profile →ἀποδημέω
apodēméō · ap-od-ay-meh'-o
4 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to go abroad, i.e. visit a foreign land
Strong's KJV usage: :--go (travel) into a far country, journey.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 21:33Strong's last: Luke 20:9
Open full G589 profile →γῆ
gē · ghay
2 times translated as this KJV form250 total Strong's occurrences
soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application)
Strong's KJV usage: :--country, earth(-ly), ground, land, world.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 9:31Strong's last: Acts 7:3
Open full G1093 profile →ὀρεινός
oreinós · or-i-nos
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
mountainous, i.e. (feminine by implication, of G5561) the Highlands (of Judæa)
Strong's KJV usage: :--hill country.
Strong's first: Luke 1:39Strong's last: Luke 1:65
Open full G3714 profile →נֶגֶב
negeb · neh'-gheb
2 times translated as this KJV form112 total Strong's occurrences
the south (from its drought); specifically, the Negeb or southern district of Judah, occasionally, Egypt (as south to Palestine)
Strong's KJV usage: south (country, side, -ward).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Joshua 11:16Strong's last: Joshua 12:8
Open full H5045 profile →שְׁפֵלָה
shᵉphêlâh · shef-ay-law'
2 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
Lowland, i.e. (with the article) the maritime slope of Palestine
Strong's KJV usage: low country, (low) plain, vale(-ley).
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 26:10Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 28:18
Open full H8219 profile →ἀλλότριος
allótrios · al-lot'-ree-os
1 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
another's, i.e. not one's own; by extension foreign, not akin, hostile
Strong's KJV usage: :--alien, (an-)other (man's, men's), strange(-r).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Hebrews 11:9Strong's last: Hebrews 11:9
Open full G245 profile →ἀνθύπατος
anthýpatos · anth-oo'-pat-os
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
instead of the highest officer, i.e. (specially) a Roman proconsul
Strong's KJV usage: :--deputy.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 13:7Strong's last: Acts 13:7
Open full G446 profile →περίχωρος
períchōros · per-ikh'-o-ros
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
around the region, i.e. circumjacent (as noun, with G1093 implied vicinity)
Strong's KJV usage: :--country (round) about, region (that lieth) round about.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 8:37Strong's last: Luke 8:37
Open full G4066 profile →אֲדָמָה
ʼădâmâh · ad-aw-maw'
1 times translated as this KJV form222 total Strong's occurrences
soil (from its general redness)
Strong's KJV usage: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jonah 4:2Strong's last: Jonah 4:2
Open full H127 profile →אִי
ʼîy · ee
1 times translated as this KJV form36 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a habitable spot (as desirable); dry land, a coast, an island
Strong's KJV usage: country, isle, island.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 47:4Strong's last: Jeremiah 47:4
Open full H339 profile →גְלִילָה
gᵉlîylâh · ghel-ee-law'
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a circuit or region
Strong's KJV usage: border, coast, country.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 47:8Strong's last: Ezekiel 47:8
Open full H1552 profile →הַר
har · har
1 times translated as this KJV form545 total Strong's occurrences
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: hill (country), mount(-ain), × promotion.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Joshua 13:6Strong's last: Joshua 13:6
Open full H2022 profile →חֶבֶל
chebel · kheh'-bel
1 times translated as this KJV form60 total Strong's occurrences
a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin
Strong's KJV usage: band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 3:14Strong's last: Deuteronomy 3:14
Open full H2256 profile →כִּכָּר
kikkâr · kik-kawr'
1 times translated as this KJV form68 total Strong's occurrences
a circle, i.e. (by implication) a circumjacent tract or region, especially the Ghor or valley of the Jordan; also a (round) loaf; also a talent (or large [round] coin)
Strong's KJV usage: loaf, morsel, piece, plain, talent.
Strong's first: Nehemiah 12:28Strong's last: Nehemiah 12:28
Open full H3603 profile →מָקוֹם
mâqôwm · maw-kome'
1 times translated as this KJV form402 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
Strong's KJV usage: country, × home, × open, place, room, space, × whither(-soever).
Strong's first: Genesis 29:26Strong's last: Genesis 29:26
Open full H4725 profile →פְּרָזִי
pᵉrâzîy · per-aw-zee'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a rustic
Strong's KJV usage: village.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 6:18Strong's last: 1 Samuel 6:18
Open full H6521 profile →קֶדֶם
qedem · keh'-dem
1 times translated as this KJV form86 total Strong's occurrences
the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)
Strong's KJV usage: aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, × ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare 6926.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 4:30Strong's last: 1 Kings 4:30
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H776
And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
H776
Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
H776
To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
H776
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
H776
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
H776
Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
H776
Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
H776
And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
H776
But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
H776
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.
H776
So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
H776
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
H776
For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
H339
Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
H776
And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,
H776
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
H776
We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
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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