The KJV renders the same Hebrew or Greek word differently within close proximity — for example, 'land' and 'country' both translate the same Hebrew word in Genesis 12:1, though the original text uses one term throughout — cited as a general pattern of inconsistent translation.

This is the same category error running through several items on this sheet: conflating the ordinary, necessary variability of ENGLISH gloss-selection for a broad-semantic-range SOURCE word with an alleged inconsistency in the Hebrew or Greek original. אֶרֶץ (eretz) has a genuinely wide semantic range in Biblical Hebrew — 'land,' 'country,' 'territory,' 'ground,' even 'earth' (the whole world) and, by metonymy, 'nation' or 'people' — and English simply requires the translator to choose among several partial synonyms ('land,' 'country,' 'territory,' 'region') depending on register and immediate sense, exactly as any translator moving between languages with different semantic-range mappings must do. In Gen 12:1 ('Get thee out of thy country [eretz], and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house'), 'country' and 'land' are functionally interchangeable English synonyms for the same referent (Abram's homeland) — the variation reflects ordinary English stylistic practice (avoiding monotonous repetition, a recognized feature of competent literary prose translation), not any shift in what the Hebrew text asserts. The Hebrew term itself, אֶרֶץ, is used uniformly and is stable across the Masoretic Text, the Dead Sea Scroll fragments of Genesis where extant, and the Samaritan Pentateuch.

Genuine consistency lies in the stable Hebrew consonantal text; competent, idiomatic English translation legitimately varies its gloss for a broad-range source word to avoid wooden literalism, which is a mark of translation quality, not a defect.