'Country' in the Bible
Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father's household to the land that I will show you.
Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord.
and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert.
Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac."
After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.
He left with all he owned. He quickly crossed the Euphrates River and headed for the hill country of Gilead.
So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.
Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.
This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir.
People from every country came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.
Now Joseph was the ruler of the country, the one who sold grain to all the people of the country. Joseph's brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.