Region

Region - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

REGION, n. re'jun. [L. regio, rego.]

1. A tract of land or space of indefinite extent, usually a tract of considerable extent. It is sometimes nearly synonymous with country; as all the region of Argob. Deu 3.

He had dominion over all the region on this side the river. 1 Ki 4.

So we speak of the airy region, the etherial regions, the upper regions, the lower regions.

2. The inhabitants of a region or district of country. Mat 3.

3. A part of the body; as the region of the heart or liver.

4. Place; rank.

He is of too high a region. [Unusual.]

re'-jun: A "district," as in modern English. The word "region" is used by English Versions of the Bible interchangeably with "country," "coasts," etc., for various Hebrew and Greek terms, but "region round about" is usually in the King James Version and invariably in the Revised Version (British and American) the translation of perichoros, "surrounding country." For a possible technical use of "region" in Ac 16:6 and the Revised Version (British and American) 18:23.

See GALATIA.