Words the Bible translates as country
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- eretsאֶרֶץthe ground at any scale: the dirt underfoot, a country with borders, or the whole earth beneath the sky
- sadehשָׂדֶהa field: the land outside the settlement, from a plowed plot somebody owns to the untamed open country.
- agrosἀγρόςa piece of land outside the town: a field, the open country, or the land a person owns there.
- chōraχώραa bounded stretch of land: a region, the countryside, or a field, with the scale set by context
- adamahאֲדָמָהthe cultivable ground: the living, reddish soil people are made from, work, belong to, and answer to
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