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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Country

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

179exact KJV occurrences 131Old Testament 48New Testament 27books containing the word 23mapped Strong's IDs 168occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

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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LAST OCCURRENCE

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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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where country appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 1616 verses Leviticus 44 verses Numbers 55 verses Deuteronomy 33 verses Joshua 2020 verses Judges 66 verses Ruth 76 verses 1 Samuel 66 verses 2 Samuel 33 verses 1 Kings 109 verses 2 Kings 44 verses 1 Chronicles 22 verses 2 Chronicles 55 verses Nehemiah 11 verses Proverbs 11 verses Isaiah 55 verses Jeremiah 1717 verses Ezekiel 77 verses Hosea 11 verses Jonah 22 verses Zechariah 63 verses Matthew 88 verses Mark 1010 verses Luke 1616 verses John 33 verses Acts 76 verses Hebrews 44 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

GreekG3968
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

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GreekG3714
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

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GreekG446
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

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GreekG4066
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

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HebrewH2256
חֶבֶל

chebel · kheh'-bel

1 times translated as this KJV form60 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Deuteronomy 3:14Strong's last: Deuteronomy 3:14

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HebrewH3603
כִּכָּר

kikkâr · kik-kawr'

1 times translated as this KJV form68 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

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.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Nehemiah 12:28Strong's last: Nehemiah 12:28

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HebrewH4725
מָקוֹם

mâqôwm · maw-kome'

1 times translated as this KJV form402 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 29:26Strong's last: Genesis 29:26

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HebrewH6924
קֶדֶם

qedem · keh'-dem

1 times translated as this KJV form86 total Strong's occurrences

n-m adv

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.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 1 Kings 4:30Strong's last: 1 Kings 4:30

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Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.

EVERY OCCURRENCE

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179 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Judges 12:12
H776

And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.

Judges 16:24
H776

And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.

Judges 18:14
H776

Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.

Judges 20:6
H7704

And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

Ruth 1:1
H7704

Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

Ruth 1:2
H7704

And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

Ruth 1:6
H7704

Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.

Ruth 1:6
H7704

Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.

Ruth 1:22
H7704

So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

Ruth 2:6
H7704

And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:

Ruth 4:3
H7704

And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:

1 Samuel 6:1
H7704

And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

1 Samuel 6:18
H6521

And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.

1 Samuel 14:21
no direct Strong's tag

Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan.

1 Samuel 27:5
H7704

And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

1 Samuel 27:7
H7704

And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

1 Samuel 27:11
H7704

And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.

2 Samuel 15:23
H776

And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

2 Samuel 18:8
H776

For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

2 Samuel 21:14
H776

And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.

1 Kings 4:19
H776

Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land.

1 Kings 4:19
H776

Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land.

1 Kings 4:30
H6924

And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 8:41
H776

Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;

1 Kings 10:13
H776

And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

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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