Promised Land
land which was promised to Abraham for his descendants (Israel)
Promised land
The Promised Land (
Hebrew: הארץ המובטחת,
translit.: ha-Aretz ha-Muvtachat) is another name for the
Land of Israel. According to the
Bible, the land was
promised by
God as an everlasting possession to the descendants of the
Hebrew patriarchs Abraham,
Isaac, and
Jacob: Abraham "On that day, God made a covenant with Abraham, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of
Egypt as far as the great river the
Euphrates. The land of the
Kenites,
Kenizzites,
Kadmonites; the
Chitties,
Perizzites,
Refaim; the
Emorites,
Canaanites, Girgashites and
Yevusites." (
Genesis 15:18-21)
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Promised Land
Noun
1. an ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
(synonym) Palestine, Canaan, Holy Land
(hypernym) geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
(part-holonym) Asia
(part-meronym) Judah, Juda
(class) chebab
2. the goal towards which Christians strive
(hypernym) Heaven
promised land
Noun
1. any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
(synonym) eden, paradise, nirvana, heaven, Shangri-la
(hypernym) region, part
Promised Land
[Judaic] The land of Canaan was promised to Abraham by God (Genesis 12:7, 13:14, 17:8).
promised land
Synonyms and related words:
Agapemone, Arcadia, Beulah, Beulah Land, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan, Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eden, Eldorado, Erewhon, Garden of Eden, Goshen, Happy Valley, Heaven, Land of Beulah, Land of Youth, Laputa, Never-Never-land, Neverland, New Atlantis, Pandemonium, Paradise, Quivira, Shangri-la, Utopia, Zion, a better place, arcadia, better world, cloudland, dreamland, dystopia, eternal home, eternity, faerie, fairyland, glory, happy hunting ground, heaven, heaven above, heavenly kingdom, high heaven, kakotopia, kingdom come, kingdom of God, kingdom of glory, kingdom of heaven, land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie, land of plenty, land of promise, lotus land, millennium, otherworld, paradise, presence of God, realm of light, the Promised Land, the happy land, the world above, utopia, wonderland
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.