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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Country:

kun'-tri ('erets, "land," sadheh, "field"; agros, "field," chora, "region"): The foregoing are the principal words rendered "country" in English Versions of the Bible, though we find also ‘adhamah, "earth" (Jon 4:2); ‘i, "island" (Jer 47:4 the King James Version); gelilah, "circuit" (Eze 47:8 the King James Version); chebhel, "rope" (De 3:14); maqom, "place" (Ge 29:26 the King James Version); nepheth,"hill" or "height" (Jos 17:11 the King James Version); genos, "race" (Ac 4:36 the King James Version); ge, "earth" (Mt 9:31 the King James Version; Ac 7:3 the King James Version); patris, "native land" (Lu 4:23; Joh 4:44; Heb 11:14); perichoros, "country (the American Standard Revised Version "region") round about" (Mt 14:35; Lu 3:3; 4:37; 8:37). In Heb 11:14 ff, "heaven" is referred to as a country. Egypt and Assyria were "far countries" (Jer 8:19 the King James Version; Zec 10:9). The hill country (compare the numerous Gibeahs (gibh‘ah, "a hill")) was the mountainous region to the North or to the South of Jerusalem. The low country, shephelah (see SHEPHELAH), consisted of the foothills to the west of the hill country. The south country or NEGEB (neghebh), which see, was the dry, extreme southern part of Palestine, approximately between Beersheba and Kadesh-barnea.

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Nave's Topical Bible

Country: Love Of

Jdg 5:1-31; 2Sa 10:12; Neh 1:1-11; 2:1-20; 5:1-18; Psa 137:1-6

The Jews held religion and country as one (a theocracy),
therefore see CHURCH, LOVE OF

See also PATRIOTISM

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Country:

denotes "a field, especially a cultivated field;" hence, "the country" in contrast to the town (Eng., "agrarian, agriculture"), e.g., Mar 5:14; 6:36; 15:21; 16:12; Luk 8:34; 9:12 (plural, lit., "fields"); 23:26; a piece of ground, e.g., Mar 10:29; Act 4:37.
See FARM.

Country:

primarily signifies "one's fatherland, native country, of one's own town," Mat 13:54, 57; Mar 6:1, 4; Luk 4:23, 24; Jhn 4:44; Hbr 11:14.

Country:

properly denotes "the space lying between two limits or places;" accordingly it has a variety of meanings: "country," Mat 2:12; 8:28; Mar 1:5, RV (AV, "land"); Mar 5:1, 10; Luk 2:8; 8:26; 15:13, 14, RV (AV, "land"), Luk 15:15; 19:12; 21:21; Act 10:39, RV (AV,"land"); Act 12:20; 26:20, RV (AV, "coasts"); Act 27:27; in Mar 6:55 (in the best mss.) and Act 18:23, RV, "region."
See COAST, FIELD, GROUND, LAND, REGION.

Country:

peri, "around," and No. 3, signifies "country round about," Luk 8:37; "country about," Luk 3:3, AV (RV, "region round about"); in Mat 14:35; Luk 4:37, AV, "country round about" (RV, "region round about"); Mat 3:5; Mar 1:28; Luk 4:14; 7:17; Act 14:6.
See REGION.

Country:

"a part," is rendered "country" in Act 19:1, RV.

Note: Some inferior mss. have No. 4 in Mar 6:55, for No. 3.

Country:

"upper," is used in the plural in Act 19:1, to denote "upper regions," with AV, "coast," RV, "country," i.e., the high central plateau, in contrast to the roundabout way by the river through the valley.
See COAST.

Country:

"hilly" (from oros, "a hill, mountain"), is translated "hill country" in Luk 1:39, 65.

Country:

signifies "to go or travel into a far country," lit., "to be away from one's people" (apo, "from," demos, "a people"), Mat 21:33; 25:14; in Mat 25:15 the verb is translated in the RV, "went on his journey" (AV, "took his journey"); Mar 12:1; Luk 20:9, "went into another country," RV. In Luk 15:13 both Versions translate by "took his journey" ("into a far country" being separately expressed); see JOURNEY. Cp. apodemos, lit., "away from one's own people, gone abroad," Mar 13:34.

Notes:

(1) Ge, "earth, land," is translated "country" in the AV of Mat 9:31; Act 7:3; RV, "land."
See LAND.

(2) Genos, "a race," is mistranslated "country" in the AV of Act 4:36 (RV, "by race"). See below.