'Region' in the Bible

They also delivered the king’s edicts to the royal satraps and governors of the region west of the Euphrates, so that they would support the people and the house of God.

I also said to the king: “If it pleases the king, let me have letters written to the governors of the region west of the Euphrates River, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.

I went to the governors of the region west of the Euphrates and gave them the king’s letters. The king had also sent officers of the infantry and cavalry with me.

Next to them the repairs were done by Melatiah the Gibeonite, Jadon the Meronothite, and the men of Gibeon and Mizpah, who were under the authority of the governor of the region west of the Euphrates River.

The singers gathered from the region around Jerusalem, from the villages of the Netophathites,

Through want and through barren hunger they are gnawing [in the] dry region [in the] darkness of desolation and waste.

I am depressed, so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

He worked wonders in the sight of their fathersin the land of Egypt, the region of Zoan.

when He performed His miraculous signs in Egyptand His wonders in the region of Zoan.

Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert region;They did not find a way to an inhabited city.

God has spoken in His holiness:“I will rejoice, I will portion out Shechem [as I divide Canaan among My people],And measure out the Valley of Succoth.

My frame was not hidden from You,When I was being formed in secret,And intricately and skillfully formed [as if embroidered with many colors] in the depths of the earth.

But there will be no gloom for her who was in distress. Formerly, he brought contempt to the region of Zebulun and the region of Naphtali, but in the future he will have made glorious the way of the sea, the territory beyond the Jordan Galilee of the nations.

because the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies will bring about destruction, as has been decreed, throughout the entire region.

“But [in fact] you will be brought down to Sheol,To the remote recesses of the pit (the region of the dead).

the deep waters! Grain from the Shihor region, crops grown near the Nile she receives; she is the trade center of the nations.

Therefore honor and glorify the Lord in the east [in the region of light],The name of the Lord, the God of Israel [honor His name],In the coastlands and islands of the [Mediterranean] Sea.

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from a rainstorm; like streams of water in a dry region and like the shade of a large cliff in a parched land.

The land mourns and dries out,Lebanon is shamed and [its lush foliage] withers;Sharon is like a desert plain,And Bashan and [Mount] Carmel shake off their leaves.

Let the desert and dry region be happy; let the wilderness rejoice and bloom like a lily!

"Watch! They'll come from far away some from the north and from the west, and others from the region of China."

Look, I'm bringing them from the northern region, and I'll gather them from the farthest parts of the earth. among them will be the blind and the lame, together with the pregnant woman and the woman in labor. A large group will return here.

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who were living in the land of Egypt, those in Migdol, Tahpanhes, Memphis, and in the region of southern Egypt.

Javan (Greece), Tubal and Meshech (Asia Minor) traded with you; with the lives of men [taken as slaves] and vessels of bronze they paid for your merchandise.

The people of Dedan [were] trading [with] you, many coastlands [composed] the region of your {influence}; they brought back horns of ivory and ebony [as] your payment.

He said to me, “This water flows out to the eastern region and goes down to the Arabah. When it enters the sea, the sea of foul water, the water of the sea becomes fresh.

“Will I not on that day,” says the Lord,“Destroy the wise men from Edom [removing all wisdom]And understanding from the mountain of Esau?

God [approaching from Sinai] comes from Teman (Edom),And the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah (pause, and calmly think of that).His splendor and majesty covers the heavensAnd the earth is full of His praise.

Woe [to you], inhabitants of the region of the sea, people of the Kerethites! The word of Yahweh [is] against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines. I will destroy you {until there is no inhabitant}.

And you, O region of the sea, shall become pastures [and] meadows [for] shepherds and sheep pens [for the] flocks.

And it shall become a region for the remnant of the house of Judah; upon them they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down in the evening. For Yahweh their God shall be mindful of them, and he will restore their fortunes.

Aren’t these the words that the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and secure, along with its surrounding cities, and when the southern region and the Judean foothills were inhabited?”

Because Edom saith, 'We have been made poor, And we turn back and we build the wastes,' Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: They do build, and I do destroy, And men have called to them, 'O region of wickedness,' 'O people whom Jehovah defied to the age.'

and having been divinely warned in a dream not to turn back unto Herod, through another way they withdrew to their own region.

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men to kill all the children in Bethlehem and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men.

But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being warned in a dream, he withdrew to the region of Galilee.

Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,

He left Nazareth behind and went to live in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali.

The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

When He had come to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men met Him as they came out of the tombs. They were so violent that no one could pass that way.

At that, the whole town went out to meet Jesus. When they saw Him, they begged Him to leave their region.

And the news of this spread throughout that region.

But they went out and spread the news about him throughout that region.

I tell all of you with certainty, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town!"

And you, Capernaum, are you to be exalted to heaven [for your apathy and unresponsiveness]? You will descend to Hades (the realm of the dead); for if the miracles done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

But I tell you, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you!"

When the men of that place recognized Jesus, they sent word throughout that region and brought him everyone who was sick.

Then Jesus left that place and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon.

Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came and kept crying out, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is cruelly tormented by a demon.”

After dismissing the crowds, He got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”

And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades (death) will not overpower it [by preventing the resurrection of the Christ].

When Jesus had finished this instruction, He departed from Galilee and went to the region of Judea across the Jordan.

and there were going forth to him all the region of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and they were all baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.

Jerusalem, Idumea, from across the Jordan, and from the region around Tyre and Sidon followed him. They came to him because they kept hearing about everything he was doing.

Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes.

And he kept begging Him not to send them out of the region.

Then they began to beg Him to leave their region.

So he [obeyed and] went away and began to publicly proclaim in Decapolis [the region of the ten Hellenistic cities] all the great things that Jesus had done for him; and all the people were astonished.

And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.

He got up and departed from there to the region of Tyre and Sidon. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it, but He could not escape notice.

Again, leaving the region of Tyre, He went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the region of the Decapolis.

His disciples replied to Him, “Where will anyone be able to find enough bread here in this isolated place to feed these people?”

Immediately he got into a boat with his disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha.

He set out from there and went to the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Then crowds converged on Him again and, as He usually did, He began teaching them once more.

In the same region, shepherds were staying out in the fields and keeping watch at night over their flock.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

John went throughout the entire Jordan region, proclaiming a baptism about repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.

And Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath [in the region] of Sidon, to a woman [who was] a widow.

So news about him spread to every place in the surrounding region.

Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was a large crowd of His disciples, and a great throng of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon,

And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judaea, and throughout all the region round about.

Then they sailed to the region of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee.

Then all the people of the Gerasene region asked Him to leave them, because they were gripped by great fear. So getting into the boat, He returned.

And it happened that while traveling toward Jerusalem, he was passing through {the region between} Samaria and Galilee.

so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)

As a result, Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews. Instead, he went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness. There he remained with his disciples.

and He said to him, ‘Leave your country and your relatives, and come to the land that I will show you.’

But Philip found himself at Azotus. As he was passing through that region, he kept proclaiming the good news in all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.

But the Jews incited the God-fearing women of high social standing and the prominent men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their region.

They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:

Paul wanted this man to go with him, so he took him and had him circumcised because of the Jews who lived in that region, since everyone knew that Timothy's father was a Greek.

Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,

After spending some time there, he departed and went from place to place through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

Now in the region around that place were fields belonging to the chief official of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably as guests for three days.

In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers in the entire region of Macedonia. But we encourage you, brothers, to do so even more,