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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.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 33 times in 30 verses in 'Act' in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:8 - But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth."

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:19 - And I will perform wonders in the sky above and miraculous signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:25 - You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, 'And in your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:24 - When they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind and said, "Master of all, you who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:26 - The kings of the earth stood together, and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:3 - and said to him, 'Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:4 - Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:6 - But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:29

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:29 - When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:33

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:33 - But the Lord said to him, 'Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:36

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:36 - This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:40

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:40 - saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt - we do not know what has happened to him!'

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:49

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:49 - 'Heaven is my throne, and earth is the footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is my resting place?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:33

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:33 - In humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his posterity? For his life was taken away from the earth."

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:4 - He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:8 - So Saul got up from the ground, but although his eyes were open, he could see nothing. Leading him by the hand, his companions brought him into Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:11 - He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:12 - In it were all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and wild birds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:6 - As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:17 - The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay as foreigners in the country of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:19 - After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:47

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:47 - For this is what the Lord has commanded us: 'I have appointed you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:15 - "Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:24 - The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:26 - From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:22 - The crowd was listening to him until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted, "Away with this man from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:14 - When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself by kicking against the goads.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:39

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:39 - When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:43

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:43 - But the centurion, wanting to save Paul's life, prevented them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:44

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:44 - and the rest were to follow, some on planks and some on pieces of the ship. And in this way all were brought safely to land.
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