Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	abraham_n	call_v	canaan_n	1,554	5	10.1521	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35242	A journey to Jerusalem, or, A relation of the travels of fourteen English-men in the year 1669 from Scanderoon, to Tripoly, Joppa, Ramah, Jerusalem, Bethlem, Jericho, the River Jordan, the Dead Sea, and back again to Aleppo : with an exact account of all the remarkable places and things in their whole journey / in a letter from T.B. in Aleppo to his friend in London ; together with a map and brief account of the ancient and modern state of those countries.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1672 (1672)	Wing C7341; ESTC R31344	27,941	139

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