約束の地

Japanese

Kanji in this term
やく
Grade: 4
そく
Grade: 4

Grade: 2
goon kan’on

Etymology

約束 (yakusoku, promise) + (no, attributive particle) + (chi, land)

Proper noun

(やく)(そく)() • (Yakusoku no Chi) 

  1. (Judaism, Christianity) the Promised Land
    • 1999 September 16, Motohiro Katou, “ヤコブの(かい)(だん)”, in Q.E.D. (しょう)(めい)(しゅう)(りょう) (Q.E.D. (しょう)(めい)(しゅう)(りょう)), volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 184:
      ヤコブは(かみ)(こと)()()け「(やく)(そく)()」を(さが)して(たび)()った ()(ぶん)(たち)を (はん)(えい)させる()()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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