'Country' in the Bible

After being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back by another route to their own country.

The soldiers forced a passerby to carry his cross, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country (he was the father of Alexander and Rufus).

After this he appeared in a different form to two of them while they were on their way to the country.

In those days Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah,

All their neighbors were filled with fear, and throughout the entire hill country of Judea all these things were talked about.

This report about Jesus circulated throughout Judea and all the surrounding country.

So the master said to his slave, 'Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

After a few days, the younger son gathered together all he had and left on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth with a wild lifestyle.

Then after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need.

So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

Therefore he said, "A nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.

Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. Those who are inside the city must depart. Those who are out in the country must not enter it,

As they led him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country. They placed the cross on his back and made him carry it behind Jesus.

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

and said to him, 'Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.'

Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live.

But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

Now Herod was having an angry quarrel with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they joined together and presented themselves before him. And after convincing Blastus, the king's personal assistant, to help them, they asked for peace, because their country's food supply was provided by the king's country.

The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay as foreigners in the country of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.