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Lexicon :: Strong's G1093 - gē

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γῆ
Transliteration
gē (Key)
Pronunciation
ghay
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
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TDNT Reference: 1:677,116

Strong’s Definitions

γῆ gē, ghay; contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application):—country, earth(-ly), ground, land, world.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 252x

The KJV translates Strong's G1093 in the following manner: earth (188x), land (42x), ground (18x), country (2x), world (1x), earthly (with G1537) (with G3588) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 252x
The KJV translates Strong's G1093 in the following manner: earth (188x), land (42x), ground (18x), country (2x), world (1x), earthly (with G1537) (with G3588) (1x).

  1. arable land

  2. the ground, the earth as a standing place

  3. the main land as opposed to the sea or water

  4. the earth as a whole

    1. the earth as opposed to the heavens

    2. the inhabited earth, the abode of men and animals

  5. a country, land enclosed within fixed boundaries, a tract of land, territory, region

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
γῆ gē, ghay; contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application):—country, earth(-ly), ground, land, world.
STRONGS G1093:
γῆ, genitive γῆς, ἡ, (contracted from γέα, poetic γαῖα), Sept. very often for אֶרֶץ and אֲדָמָה, earth;
1. arable land: Matthew 13:5, 8, 23; Mark 4:8, 20, 26, 28, 31; Luke 13:7; Luke 14:35 (Luke 14:34); John 12:24; Hebrews 6:7; James 5:7; Revelation 9:4; of the earthy material out of which a thing is formed, with the implied idea of frailty and weakness: ἐκ γῆς χοϊκός, 1 Corinthians 15:47.
2. the ground, the earth as a standing-place, (German Boden): Matthew 10:29; Matthew 15:35; Matthew 23:35; Matthew 27:51; Mark 8:6; Mark 9:20; Mark 14:35; Luke 22:44 [L brackets WH reject the passage]; Luke 24:5; John 8:6, 8 [i. e. Rec.]; Acts 9:4, 8.
3. the main land, opposed to sea or water: Mark 4:1; Mark 6:47; Luke 5:3; Luke 8:27; John 6:21; John 21:8f, 11; Revelation 12:12.
4. the earth as a whole, the world (Latin terrarum orbis);
a. the earth as opposed to the heavens: Matthew 5:18, 35; Matthew 6:10; Matthew 16:19; Matthew 18:18; Matthew 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 2:14; John 12:32; Acts 2:19; Acts 4:24; 2 Peter 3:5, 7, 10, 13; Revelation 21:1; τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς the things and beings that are on the earth, Ephesians 1:10; Colossians 1:16 [T WH omit; L Tr brackets τά]; involving a suggestion of mutability, frailty, infirmity, alike in thought and in action, Matthew 6:19; τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς (equivalent to τὰ ἐπίγεια, Philippians 3:19) terrestrial goods, pleasures, honors, Colossians 3:2 (opposed to τὰ ἄνω); τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς the members of your earthly body, as it were the abode and instruments of corrupt desires, Colossians 3:5; ὁ ὢν ἐκ τῆς γῆς... λαλεῖ (in contrast with Christ as having come from heaven) he who is of earthly (human) origin, has an earthly nature, and speaks as his earthly origin and nature prompt, John 3:31.
b. the inhabited earth, the abode of men and animals: Luke 21:35; Acts 1:8; Acts 10:12; Acts 11:6; Acts 17:26; Hebrews 11:13; Revelation 3:10; αἴρειν ζωην τινος or τινὰ ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς, Acts 8:33; Acts 22:22; κληρονομεῖν τὴν γῆν (see κληρονομέω, 2), Matthew 5:5 (Matthew 5:4); πῦρ βάλλειν ἐπὶ [Rec. εἰς] τὴν γῆν, i. e. among men, Luke 12:49, cf. Luke 12:51 and Matthew 10:34; ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς among men, Luke 18:8; John 17:4.
5. a country, land enclosed within fixed boundaries, a tract of land, territory, region; simply, when it is plain from the context what land is meant, as that of the Jews: Luke 4:25; Luke 21:23; Romans 9:28; James 5:17; with a gentile noun added [then, as a rule, anarthrous, Winer's Grammar, 121 (114f)]: γῆ Ἰσραήλ, Matthew 2:20f; Ἰούδα, Matthew 2:6; Γεννησαρέτ, Matthew 14:34; Mark 6:53; Σοδόμων κ. Γομόρρων, Matthew 10:15; Matthew 11:24; Χαλδαίων, Acts 7:4; Αἴγυπτος, (see Αἴγυπτος); ἡ Ἰουδαία γῆ, John 3:22; with the addition of an adjective: ἀλλοτρία, Acts 7:6; ἐκείνη, Matthew 9:26, 31; with the genitive of person one's country, native land, Acts 7:3.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
2:6; 2:20; 5:4; 5:5; 5:18; 5:35; 6:10; 6:19; 9:26; 9:31; 10:15; 10:29; 10:34; 11:24; 13:5; 13:8; 13:23; 14:34; 15:35; 16:19; 18:18; 23:35; 24:35; 27:51
Mark
4:1; 4:8; 4:20; 4:26; 4:28; 4:31; 6:47; 6:53; 8:6; 9:20; 13:31; 14:35
Luke
2:14; 4:25; 5:3; 8:27; 12:49; 12:51; 13:7; 14:34; 14:35; 18:8; 21:23; 21:35; 22:44; 24:5
John
3:22; 3:31; 6:21; 8:6; 8:8; 12:24; 12:32; 17:4; 21:8; 21:11
Acts
1:8; 2:19; 4:24; 7:3; 7:4; 7:6; 8:33; 9:4; 9:8; 10:12; 11:6; 17:26; 22:22
Romans
9:28
1 Corinthians
15:47
Ephesians
1:10
Philippians
3:19
Colossians
1:16; 3:2; 3:5
Hebrews
6:7; 11:13
James
5:7; 5:17
2 Peter
3:5; 3:7; 3:10; 3:13
Revelation
3:10; 9:4; 12:12; 21:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1093 matches the Greek γῆ (gē),
which occurs 250 times in 223 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:6 - 'And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are in no way least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:20 - saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child's life are dead."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:21 - So he got up and took the child and his mother and returned to the land of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:15 - "Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way by the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles -

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:5 - "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:13 - "You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:18 - I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter will pass from the law until everything takes place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:35 - not by earth, because it is his footstool, and not by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:10 - may your kingdom come, may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:19 - "Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:6 - But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" - then he said to the paralytic - "Stand up, take your stretcher, and go home."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:26 - And the news of this spread throughout that region.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:31 - But they went out and spread the news about him throughout that entire region.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:15 - I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town!

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:29 - Aren't two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father's will.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:34 - "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:24 - But I tell you, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:25 - At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:40 - For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 12:42

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:42 - The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon - and now, something greater than Solomon is here!

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:5 - Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:8 - But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:23 - But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:24 - Meanwhile the boat, already far from land, was taking a beating from the waves because the wind was against it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 14:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:34 - After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:35 - After instructing the crowd to sit down on the ground,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:19 - I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 17:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:25 - He said, "Yes." When Peter came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect tolls or taxes - from their sons or from foreigners?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:18 - "I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:19 - Again, I tell you the truth, if two of you on earth agree about whatever you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:9 - And call no one your 'father' on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:35 - so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:30

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:30 - Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man arriving on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:35 - Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:18 - But the one who had received one talent went out and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:25 - so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:45 - Now from noon until three, darkness came over all the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:51

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:51 - Just then the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks were split apart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:18 - Then Jesus came up and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:10 - But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins," - he said to the paralytic -

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:1 - Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:5 - Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:8 - But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:20 - But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:26 - He also said, "The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:28 - By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:31 - It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground -

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:47 - When evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea and he was alone on the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:53 - After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and anchored there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:6 - Then he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground. After he took the seven loaves and gave thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples to serve. So they served the crowd.

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