'Country' in the Bible

Through faith he came and made his home for a time in a land which had been promised to him, as if in a foreign country, living in tents together with Isaac and Jacob, sharers with him in the same promise;

for men who acknowledge this make it manifest that they are seeking elsewhere a country of their own.

And if they had cherished the remembrance of the country they had left, they would have found an opportunity to return;