約束の地

Japanese
Kanji in this term
約 束 地
やく
Grade: 4		 そく
Grade: 4		 ち
Grade: 2
goon kan’on

Etymology

約束 (yakusoku, “promise”) +‎ の (no, attributive particle) +‎ 地 (chi, “land”)

Proper noun

約束の地 (hiragana やくそくのち, rōmaji Yakusoku no Chi)

  1. (Judaism, Christianity) the Promised Land
    • 1999 September 16, Katou, Motohiro, “ヤコブの階たい段だん [Jacob’s Stairway]”, in Ｑ.Ｅ.Ｄ. 証しょう明めい終しゅう了りょう [Q.E.D. Quod Erat Demonstrandum], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 184:
      ヤコブは神 (かみ)の言 (こと)葉 (ば)を受 (う)け「約 (やく)束 (そく)の地 (ち)」を探 (さが)して旅 (たび)立 (だ)った　自 (じ)分 (ぶん)達 (たち)を　繁 (はん)栄 (えい)させる土 (と)地 (ち)を‥‥
      Yakobu wa Kami no kotoba o uke “Yakusoku no Chi” o sagashite tabidatta jibuntachi o han'ei saseru tochi o‥‥
      Jacob took God’s words and set out in search of the “Promised Land”, of themselves, of fertile soil‥‥
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