'Country' in the Bible

Now their settlement extended from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the hill country of the east.

Now the Lord said to Abram,“Go forth from your country,And from your relativesAnd from your father’s house,To the land which I will show you;

Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and conquered all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, who lived in Hazazon-tamar.

Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell into them. But those who survived fled to the hill country.

but you will go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

Now it came about when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own country.

So he fled with all that he had; and he arose and crossed the Euphrates River, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

then he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him a distance of seven days’ journey, and he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen camped in the hill country of Gilead.

Then Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will prosper you,’

So Esau lived in the hill country of Seir; Esau is Edom.

These then are the records of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.

“The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly with us, and took us for spies of the country.