'Land' in the Word, denotes the church, for the things which signify the church also signify the things relating to the church, for these constitute the church. The reason why 'land' denotes the church in the Word is because the land of Canaan was the land in which the church had been since the most ancient times. Hence, when 'land' is named in the Word, it means the land of Canaan, which then means the church. For when the expression 'the land' appears there, people in the spiritual world do not concern themselves with the idea of a land, only with the idea of the nation inhabiting it. And yet not with an idea of that nation but with an idea of the essential nature of it.

'Land' or 'earth,' as in Genesis 20:15, signifies the doctrine of love and charity.

'Land' signifies the celestial principle of love in Genesis 24:4.

In Genesis 26:12, 'land' signifies rational things.

In Genesis 28:13, this signifies the good of the natural.

The 'land' represents the divine of the rational principle in Genesis 30:25.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 5577)

2064. Verse 16 And I will bless her, and I will also give you a son by her. And I will bless him, and he will become nations; kings of peoples will be from her.

'I will bless her' means the multiplication of truth. 'And I will also give you a son by her means the Rational. 'And I will bless him' means the multiplication of this. 'And he will become nations' means resulting goods. 'Kings of peoples will be from her' means truths that are the product of truths and goods joined together, meant by 'kings and peoples'.