Update anachronistic Palestine references to Land of Israel in Strong's dictionary#14
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Strong's Concordance (1890/1894) was compiled when the land was under Ottoman rule, commonly referred to as 'Palestine' in English. Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, this terminology is anachronistic in a biblical reference tool. Changes: - 606 concordance entries updated (556 Hebrew + 50 Greek) - 1,878 total replacements across 6 data files (JSON, XML, DAT) - All formats kept in sync - No structural changes to file formats - No Strong's numbers modified Common patterns replaced: 'a place in Palestine' → 'a place in the Land of Israel' 'the capital city of Palestine' → 'the capital of ancient Israel' 'aborigines of Palestine' → 'ancient inhabitants of the Land of Canaan' and 35+ additional contextual patterns Verification: zero remaining 'Palestine' references across all files.
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Summary
This PR updates outdated Ottoman-era geographic references in Strong's dictionary data files.
What changed
the Land of Israelthe capital of ancient Israelancient inhabitants of the Land of Canaanhebrew/strongs-hebrew-dictionary.jshebrew/strongshebrew.dathebrew/StrongHebrewG.xmlgreek/strongs-greek-dictionary.jsgreek/strongsgreek.datgreek/StrongsGreekDictionaryXML_1.4/strongsgreek.xmlWhy
Strong's Concordance was compiled in 1890/1894 when the land was under Ottoman rule and English usage commonly referred to it as "Palestine." For a modern biblical reference resource, that terminology is now historically anachronistic and misleading.
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Palestinereferences in the updated files