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Greek

1290. diaspora -- a dispersion (Isr. in Gentile countries)
... in Gentile countries). Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: diaspora
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-as-por-ah') Short Definition: dispersion Definition: lit ...
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5007. talanton -- a balance, hence that which is weighed, ie a ...
... exchange. [" refers to a talent- of silver (the weight and the value being
different in different countries and at different times). ...
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3625. oikoumene -- the inhabited earth
... 3625 () literally means " ()." It was "originally used by the Greeks to denote the
land inhabited by , in contrast with countries; afterward, when the Greeks ...
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Strong's Hebrew

776. erets -- earth, land
... root Definition earth, land NASB Word Usage common (1), countries (15), countries
and their lands (1), country (44), countryside (1), distance* (3), dust (1 ...
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4801. merchaq -- distant place, distance
... Word Origin from rachaq Definition distant place, distance NASB Word Usage afar
(5), afar off (1), distant (3), far (3), far away (1), far countries (1), far ...
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Library

The Head Over Many Countries
... Names And Titles of the Antichrist 11. The Head Over Many Countries. "He
shall ... His wrath. He wounds this Head over many countries. ...
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Different Customs of Different Countries.
... Book IX. Chapter XXIV."Different Customs of Different Countries. "In the
regions of Britain several men have one wife; in Parthia ...
/.../recognitions of clement /chapter xxiv different customs of different.htm

Ancient Syriac Documents Relating to the Earliest Establishment of ...
... BP Pratten, BA] Ancient Syriac Documents Relating to the Earliest Establishment
of Christianity in Edessa and the Neighbouring Countries. ...
/.../unknown/the decretals/ancient syriac documents relating to.htm

In the Next Place, Miracles were Performed in all Countries...
... Chapter III. In the next place, miracles were performed in all countries�
In the next place, miracles were performed in all countries ...
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The Answer on the Difference of Customs in the Two Countries.
... The Conferences of John Cassian. Chapter VII. The answer on the difference
of customs in the two countries. Germanus: Although we ...
/.../cassian/the conferences of john cassian/chapter vii the answer on.htm

Church Government.
... By this time the Gospel had not only been firmly settled as the religion of the
great Roman empire, but had made its way into most other countries of the world ...
/.../chapter xvii church government.htm

The Hardening of Nations.
... It should be noticeable in the European and American settlers in those countries;
in the laws and institutions which we impose upon them; in the writings and ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/xxxv the hardening of nations.htm

The Age of the Apostles (Ad 33-100)
... Many of these devout men there converted by what they then saw and heard, to believe
the Gospel; and, when they returned to their own countries, they carried ...
/.../chapter i the age of.htm

An Example Showing How one is Hindered in this Exercise
... Then the weather may become so unwholesome and so hot that in some countries herbs
and trees wither and shrivel, and in some waters the fishes pine away and ...
/.../john/the adornment of the spritual marriage/chapter xxv an example showing.htm

The Doom of the Antichrist
... against him (ie the king of the south) like a whirlwind with chariots, and with
horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) Plural of Country.

Thesaurus

Countries (86 Occurrences)
...Countries (86 Occurrences). Matthew 27:7 And they made a decision to get with the
silver the potter's field, as a place for the dead of other countries. (BBE). ...
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Disperse (13 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV). Psalms 106:27 And that he would make their seed
fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries. (DBY RSV). ...
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Fever (13 Occurrences)
... denotes, which attends all febrile attacks. In all Eastern countries such
diseases are very common. Peter's wife's mother is said ...
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Devastated (20 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 29:12 I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries
that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste ...
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Desolated (21 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 29:12 And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the
countries that are desolated, and her cities shall be, in the midst of the ...
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Scatter (65 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 12:15 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them
among the nations, and scatter them through the countries. ...
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Unpeopled (38 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 29:12 I will make the land of Egypt a waste among the countries which are
made waste, and her towns will be unpeopled among the towns which have been ...
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Galatia (6 Occurrences)
... and being strengthened by fresh accessions of the same clan from Europe, they overran
Bithynia, and supported themselves by plundering neighbouring countries. ...
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Kingdoms (65 Occurrences)
... 1 Chronicles 29:30 with all his reign and his might, and the times that went over
him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries. ...
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Genealogy (29 Occurrences)
... rests in turn on the assumption that the progress of religious thought and life
in Israel was essentially the same as in all other countries; an evolutionary ...
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Bible Concordance

Countries (86 Occurrences)

Matthew 27:7 And they made a decision to get with the silver the potter's field, as a place for the dead of other countries.
(BBE)

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.
(KJV WBS YLT)

Acts 8:1 And Saul was consenting to his being killed. And on that day there arose a great persecution against the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and all were scattered into the countries of Judaea and Samaria except the apostles.
(DBY)

Acts 8:4 Those then that had been scattered went through the countries announcing the glad tidings of the word.
(DBY)

2 Corinthians 10:16 So that we may be able to go on and take the good news to countries still farther away than you are, and not take credit for another man's work in making things ready to our hand.
(BBE)

Genesis 10:20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
(KJV WBS)

Genesis 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
(KJV DBY WBS)

Genesis 26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
(KJV DBY WBS)

Genesis 41:57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NIV)

Deuteronomy 29:16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 29:22 And future generations, your children coming after you, and travellers from far countries, will say, when they see the punishments of that land and the diseases which the Lord has sent on it;
(BBE)

Joshua 13:32 These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.
(KJV WBS)

Joshua 14:1 And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.
(KJV WBS)

Joshua 17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.
(KJV WBS)

2 Samuel 22:45 Men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority: from the time when my name comes to their ears, they will be ruled by me.
(BBE)

1 Kings 4:21 Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
(See NIV)

2 Kings 18:35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all countries, destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
(DBY NIV)

1 Chronicles 22:5 David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS)

1 Chronicles 29:30 with all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

2 Chronicles 9:28 They brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
(See NAS NIV)

2 Chronicles 11:23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.
(KJV WBS)

2 Chronicles 12:8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

2 Chronicles 15:5 And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
(KJV DBY WBS)

2 Chronicles 20:29 The fear of God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that Yahweh fought against the enemies of Israel.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 32:13 Do ye not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the countries? Were the gods of the nations of the countries in any wise able to deliver their country out of my hand?
(DBY)

2 Chronicles 32:17 And he wrote a letter to rail at Jehovah the God of Israel, and to speak against him saying, As the gods of the nations of the countries have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of my hand.
(DBY)

2 Chronicles 34:33 Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they didn't depart from following Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Ezra 3:3 They set the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of the peoples of the countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)

Ezra 4:15 So that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: and you will see in the book of the records that this town has been uncontrolled, and a cause of trouble to kings and countries, and that there were outbursts against authority there in the past: for which reason the town was made waste.
(BBE)

Ezra 4:20 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.
(KJV WBS)

Nehemiah 9:22 And thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, and didst divide them by countries; and they possessed the land of Sihon, as well the land of the king of Heshbon, as the land of Og king of Bashan.
(DBY)

Psalms 18:44 From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.
(BBE)

Psalms 106:27 And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
(DBY)

Psalms 107:3 And gathered out of the countries, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the sea.
(DBY)

Psalms 110:6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
(KJV ASV WBS)

Ecclesiastes 2:8 I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides.
(BBE)

Isaiah 2:6 For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.
(BBE)

Isaiah 5:13 For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.
(BBE)

Isaiah 8:9 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)

Isaiah 10:14 And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 23:7 Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?
(BBE)

Isaiah 36:20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'"
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY RSV NIV)

Isaiah 37:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all countries, destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
(DBY NIV)

Isaiah 37:18 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)

Isaiah 60:10 And men from strange countries will be building up your walls, and their kings will be your servants: for in my wrath I sent punishment on you, but in my grace I have had mercy on you.
(BBE)

Isaiah 61:5 And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.
(BBE)

Isaiah 62:8 The Lord has taken an oath by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Truly, I will no longer give your grain to be food for your haters; and men of strange countries will not take the wine for which your work has been done:
(BBE)

Jeremiah 16:15 but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them. I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 23:3 I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 23:8 but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them. They shall dwell in their own land.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 28:8 The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)

Jeremiah 40:11 Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 40:12 then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 51:28 Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion.
(See NIV)

Lamentations 1:1 See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!
(BBE)

Ezekiel 5:5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are around her.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 5:6 She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 6:8 Yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 11:16 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they are come.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 11:17 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 12:15 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 20:23 Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 20:32 and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)

Ezekiel 20:34 and I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 20:41 As a pleasant aroma will I accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 22:4 You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 22:15 I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 25:7 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries: I will destroy you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 29:12 I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 30:7 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.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)

Ezekiel 30:23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NIV)

Ezekiel 30:26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 32:9 I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Ezekiel 34:13 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 35:10 Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 36:19 and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 36:24 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 39:27 when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.
(See NIV)

Daniel 9:7 Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS NIV)

Daniel 11:40 At the time of the end shall the king of the south contend with him; and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass through.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Daniel 11:41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown; but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS NIV)

Daniel 11:42 He shall stretch forth his hand also on the countries; and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Zechariah 8:7 This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will be the saviour of my people from the east country, and from the west country;
(See NIV)

Zechariah 10:9 I will sow them among the peoples; and they will remember me in far countries; and they will live with their children, and will return.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Countries

Related Terms

Disperse (13 Occurrences)

Fever (13 Occurrences)

Devastated (20 Occurrences)

Desolated (21 Occurrences)

Scatter (65 Occurrences)

Unpeopled (38 Occurrences)

Galatia (6 Occurrences)

Kingdoms (65 Occurrences)

Genealogy (29 Occurrences)