Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The home place; a home and the enclosure or ground immediately connected with it. 2. (n.) The home or seat of a family; place of origin. 3. (n.) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family.

Multi-Version Concordance Homestead (2 Occurrences) Acts 1:20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his homestead become desolate, and let there be no dweller in it; and, Let another take his overseership. (DBY NAS) Isaiah 27:10 For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him. (See NAS)