LANCE (lams), (Heb. kee-dohn.), Jer. 1:42; elsewhere "spear." (See ARMS, ARMOR.) LANCET (lan'set), (Heb. 117.1, ro'makh, to hurl).
This word is found in 1 Kings xviii:28 only; else where "spear." (See ARMS, A RmoR.) LAND (land).
1. The whole continent of the earth, as distin guished from the sea (Matt. xxiii :15).
2. A particular country, especially parts of it which are fit to be plowed ( Matt.ix :26 ; Gen.xxvi: 12; Acts iv:37; Matt. xix :29).
3. The inhabitants of a country (Is. xxxvii: 11). (See AGRICULTURE.) Figurative. (i) Canaan is called Imman uel's land, or the Lord's land. It enjoyed the peculiar care, protection, presence, and ordinances of the Redeemer, and in it lie long dwelt in our nature (Is. viii :8). It was a land of promise, as given by promise to Abraham and his seed (Heb. xi:9). It was a land of uprightness; as there, men having the oracles of God, ought to have behaved uprightly towards God and man (Is.
xxvi :to). It is called a land of unwalled villages, as it seems, thc Jews, at their return. in the be ginning of the millennium, will not fortify their cities (Ezek. xxxviii:11). (2) Egypt is called a land of trouble and anguish, because there the Hebrews were exceedingly distressed, and it had long been a scene of terrible calamities (Is. xxx :6). (3) Babylon was a land of graven im ages; because idolatry mightily prevailed in it Ger. 1:38)• (4) The land of the living, is this world, wherein men are before death, and the heavenly state where 110 death ever enters (Ps. exvi :9, and xxvii :13). (5) The grave is the land of darkness and of the shadow of death (Job X :21, 22) ; and of forgetfulness, as men are soon forgotten after they are buried (Ps. lxxxviii: