The
Land of Israel (
ʼÉreṣ Yiśrāʼēl,
Eretz Yisrael) is one of several names for an area of indefinite geographical extension in the
Southern Levant. Related biblical, religious and historical English terms include the
Land of Canaan, the
Promised Land, the
Holy Land, and
Palestine (q.v.
Israel (disambiguation)). The definitions of the limits of this territory vary between passages in the
Hebrew Bible, with specific mentions in Genesis 15, Exodus 23, Numbers 34 and Ezekiel 47. Nine times elsewhere in the Bible, the settled land is referred as "
from Dan to Beersheba, and three times it is referred as "from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of Egypt” (1 Kings 8:65, 1 Chronicles 13:5 and 2 Chronicles 7:8).".