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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Land
Thompson Chain Reference
• Promised Land
• Land
• Fruitful Land
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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Possession of Land
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Holy Land
Dictionaries
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Land (of Israel)
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Zuph, Land of
• Uz, the Land of
• Tob, the Land of
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Zuph, Land of
• Tahtim-Hodshi, Land of
• Shual, the Land of
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• People of the Land
• Parched Land
• Large Land
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Tahtim Hodshi, the Land of
• Shual, Land of
• Shaalim, Land of
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Gennesaret, Land of
King James Dictionary
• Landing
• Landed
• Land
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Tappuah, Land of
• Gennesaret, Land of
• Egypt, Land of
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Promised Land, the
• Land of Hus
• Land of Chanaan
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People's Bible Dictionary
• Land-Mark
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Shual The Land of
• Shalisha The Land of
• Shalim The Land of
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Land
• Land
Webster Dictionary
• Table-Land
• No-Man's Land
• Landing
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Aire, Landes, France
• Crown Land
• De Land
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Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia
• Promised Land
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Crocodile, Land
• Gennesaret, Land of
• Land
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Canaan Land of
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Gesem (Ãſâ“ãſâµãâƓãſâ­ãſâ¼), a Graecized Form (Jdt_1:9) of the Name of the Land of Goshen.
• Holy Land
• Land
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Auck`land
• Bechuana-Land
• Black Lands
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Commissariat of the Holy Land
• Land of Genezareth
• Land-Tenure in the Christian Era
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Basel-Land
• Council of Four Lands
• Holy Land
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Lexicons
• ܐܳܓ݂ܽܘܪܣܳܐ
• ܐܰܪܥܳܐ
• ܝܳܒ݁ܫܳܐ
Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Soil, Land
• ἀγρός
• γῆ
• κατάγω
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• אֲדָמָה , אֲדָמָה
• אֶזְרָח
• אֲרַע
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LAND, n.

1. Earth, or the solid matter which constitutes the fixed part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the sea or other waters, which constitute the fluid or movable part. Hence we say, the globe is terraqueous, consisting of land and water. The seaman in a long voyage longs to see land.

2. Any portion of the solid, superficial part of the globe, whether a kingdom or country, or a particular region. The United States is denominated the land of freedom.

Go, view the land, even Jericho. Joshua 2 .

3. Any small portion of the superficial part of the earth or ground. We speak of the quantity of land in a manor. Five hundred acres of land is a large farm.

4. Ground soil, or the superficial part of the earth in respect to its nature or quality as good land poor land moist or dry land.

5. Real Estate. A traitor forfeits all his lands and tenements.

6. The inhabitants of a country or region a nation or people.

These answers in the silent night received, the king himself divulged, the land believed.

7. The ground left unplowed between furrows, is by some of our farmers called a land.

To make the land,

To make land, In seaman's language, is to discover land from sea, as the ship approaches it.

To shut in the land, to lose sight of the land left, by the intervention of a point or promontory.

To set the land, to see by the compass how it bears from the ship.

LAND, n. Urine whence the old expression, land dam, to kill. Obs.

LAND, to set on shore to disembark to debark as, to land troops from a ship or boat to land goods.

LAND, To go on shore from a ship or boat to disembark.