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Lexicon :: Strong's H776 - 'ereṣ

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אֶרֶץ
Transliteration
'ereṣ
Pronunciation
eh'-rets
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root probably meaning to be firm
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 167

Strong’s Definitions

אֶרֶץ ʼerets, eh'-rets; from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land):—× common, country, earth, field, ground, land, × nations, way, + wilderness, world.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,504x

The KJV translates Strong's H776 in the following manner: land (1,543x), earth (712x), country (140x), ground (98x), world (4x), way (3x), common (1x), field (1x), nations (1x), wilderness (with H4057) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,504x
The KJV translates Strong's H776 in the following manner: land (1,543x), earth (712x), country (140x), ground (98x), world (4x), way (3x), common (1x), field (1x), nations (1x), wilderness (with H4057) (1x).
  1. land, earth

    1. earth

      1. whole earth (as opposed to a part)

      2. earth (as opposed to heaven)

      3. earth (inhabitants)

    2. land

      1. country, territory

      2. district, region

      3. tribal territory

      4. piece of ground

      5. land of Canaan, Israel

      6. inhabitants of land

      7. Sheol, land without return, (under) world

      8. city (-state)

    3. ground, surface of the earth

      1. ground

      2. soil

    4. (in phrases)

      1. people of the land

      2. space or distance of country (in measurements of distance)

      3. level or plain country

      4. land of the living

      5. end(s) of the earth

    5. (almost wholly late in usage)

      1. lands, countries

        1. often in contrast to Canaan

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֶרֶץ ʼerets, eh'-rets; from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land):—× common, country, earth, field, ground, land, × nations, way, + wilderness, world.
STRONGS H776: Abbreviations
אֶ֫רֶץ 2407 noun feminineGenesis 10:11 & (seldom) masculine Genesis 13:16 earth, land (Phoenician, MI ארץ, Assyrian irṣitu COTGloss, Arabic أَرْضً, Sabean ארץֿ e.g. Os9 DHMZMG 1875, 594, 614; Semitic Sprachf. 12, compare PräBAS i. 374 n., Aramaic H772 אֲרַע, aYxiRAf  ) — א׳ absolute Genesis 1:24 +; construct Genesis 2:11 +; אָ֑רֶץ Genesis 1:10 +; with article always הָאָ֫רֶץ Genesis 1:11 +; with ָ  ה locative אַ֫רְצָה Genesis 11:31 +, (this form also in poetry = אֶרֶץ Job 34:13 +); suffix אַרְצִי Job 20:15 +; (אַרְצֶ֑ךָ) אַרְצְךָ Job 12:1 +, etc.; plural אֲרָצוֺת Jeremiah 28:8 + 65 times; construct אַרְצוֺת Ezekiel 39:27 + 6 times; suffix אַרְצֹתָם Genesis 10:5 + 2 times; —
1.
a. earth, whole earth (opposed to a part) Genesis 18:18, 25; Genesis 22:18 (= הָאֲדָמָה Genesis 12:3) Jeremiah 25:26, 29, 30; Jeremiah 26:6; Isaiah 37:16, 20 = 2 Kings 19:15; 2 Kings 19:19; Zechariah 4:10; Zechariah 4:14 +.
b. earth, opposed to heaven, sky Genesis 1:2; Exodus 20:4; Deuteronomy 5:8; Deuteronomy 30:19; Judges 5:4; Lamentations 2:1; Isaiah 37:16 = 2 Kings 19:15; Psalm 146:6; 1 Chronicles 21:16; 1 Chronicles 29:11; 2 Chronicles 2:11 +; as permanent Ecclesiastes 1:4; built on foundations, or pillars 1 Samuel 2:8; Psalm 104:5; Job 38:4; Isaiah 48:13; Isaiah 51:13, 16 compare also Isaiah 24:18; Psalm 82:5; firm, so that its shaking is something terrible, & token of terrible power 1 Samuel 14:4; 2 Samuel 22:8 = Psalm 18:8; Job 9:6 compare Psalm 46:2 & Psalm 46:6; so also Amos 8:8; Isaiah 2:19, 21; Isaiah 24:18, 19, 20; Psalm 60:4; Psalm 77:19; Psalm 99:1; Psalm 114:7; as hung on nothing Job 26:7; with waters under it Exodus 20:4 = Deuteronomy 5:8 compare Genesis 7:11; personified, especially as addressed, called to witness, etc. Deuteronomy 32:1; Jeremiah 6:19; Jeremiah 22:29; Isaiah 1:2; Micah 1:2; Job 16:18.
c. earth = inhabitants of earth Genesis 6:11; 1 Kings 2:2; 1 Kings 10:24; Psalm 33:8; Psalm 66:4תֵּבֵל א׳ Proverbs 8:31; Job 37:12.
2. land =
c. tribal territory Deuteronomy 34:2; Judges 21:21; 1 Samuel 9:4, 16; 1 Samuel 13:7; 1 Kings 15:20; Isaiah 8:23; and still smaller territories 1 Samuel 9:4, 5.
d. piece of ground Genesis 23:15.
e. specifically land of Canaan, or Israel Genesis 11:31; Genesis 12:1; Genesis 12:5; Genesis 12:6; Genesis 12:7; Genesis 31:3; Exodus 14:34; Deuteronomy 17:14; Deuteronomy 18:9; 2 Kings 5:2, 4 +; especially object of יָרַשׁ possess Deuteronomy 3:20 — Deuteronomy, Psalms and elsewhere; so after נָחַל Joshua 19:49 +; נָתַן Deuteronomy 1:21 +.
g. used even of She’ôl Job 10:21, 22 (compare Assyrian irṣit la târat, land without return, in Descent of Ishtar, see Jr10. 65); see also Psalm 139:15; Isaiah 44:23.
3.
a. ground, surface of ground = אֲדָמָה q. v. Genesis 1:26, 30; Genesis 18:2; Genesis 33:3; Genesis 38:9; Exodus 4:3; Exodus 16:4; Ruth 2:10; 1 Samuel 5:4 + very often in Samuel.
4. אֶרֶץ in phrases:
a. people of the land עַם־הָא׳ of non-Israelites Genesis 23:7, 12, 13 (P) Numbers 14:9 (JE); as well as Israel Leviticus 20:4 (H) 2 Kings 15:5; 2 Kings 16:15; 2 Kings 21:24 (twice in verse); especially common people, opposed to officials, princes Leviticus 4:27 (P) Ezekiel 7:27; 2 Kings 11:18, 19.
b. in measurements of distance, כִּבְרַת הָא׳ the space or distance of country (see כּברה) Genesis 35:16, so כִּבְרַת א׳ some distance Genesis 48:7; 2 Kings 5:19.
c. אֶרֶץ הַמִּישׁוֺר the country of the plain, level or plain country Deuteronomy 4:33; Jeremiah 48:21; מִישׁוֺר א׳ figurative Psalm 143:10 (but read אֹרַח Syriac Version Bi Gr Che, compare Psalm 27:11).
d. חַיִּים א׳ land of the living Psalm 27:13; הַחַיִּים א׳ Psalm 142:6.
e. קְצֵה הָא׳ end(s) of the earth Isaiah 42:10; Isaiah 43:6 (|| רָחוֺק) Psalm 135:7; Proverbs 17:24, so אַפְסֵי א׳ Proverbs 30:4 +; קְצוֺת הָא׳ Isaiah 40:28; Isaiah 41:5, 9.
5. plural אֲרָצוֺת is almost wholly late, Jeremiah 16:15 + 6 times Jeremiah; + 23 times Ezekiel; Isaiah 36:20; Isaiah 37:11 = 2 Kings 18:35; 2 Kings 19:11 (Isaiah 37:18 read הַגּוֺיִם see Che Di & compare 2 Kings 19:17); + 22 times Chronicles; Daniel 9:7; Daniel 11:40, 42; Psalm 105:44; Psalm 106:27; Psalm 107:3; Psalm 116:9; besides these only P Genesis 10:5, 20, 31; Leviticus 26:36, 39, except Genesis 26:3, 4 (JR) Genesis 41:54 (JE); it denotes lands, countries, often in contrast to Canaan, lands of the nations, etc., see especially absolute Ezekiel 20:32; Ezekiel 22:4; = the various petty divisions of Canaan afterward united under Israel's control Genesis 26:3, 4, compare 1 Chronicles 13:2 אַרְצוֺת יִשְׂרָאֵל, 2 Chronicles 11:23 אַרְצוֺת יְהוּדָה.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:2; 1:10; 1:11; 1:11; 1:12; 1:24; 1:26; 1:30; 2:11; 6:11; 7:11; 10:5; 10:5; 10:10; 10:11; 10:11; 10:20; 10:31; 11:28; 11:31; 11:31; 11:31; 12:1; 12:3; 12:5; 12:6; 12:7; 13:10; 13:16; 18:2; 18:18; 18:25; 19:28; 21:21; 22:2; 22:18; 23:7; 23:12; 23:13; 23:15; 26:3; 26:3; 26:4; 26:4; 31:3; 33:3; 35:16; 38:9; 41:54; 47:6; 47:27; 48:7; 50:8

Exodus

4:3; 16:4; 20:4; 20:4

Leviticus

4:27; 19:9; 19:29; 20:4; 25:9; 26:4; 26:36; 26:39

Numbers

14:7; 14:8; 14:9

Deuteronomy

1:21; 3:20; 4:33; 5:8; 5:8; 17:14; 18:9; 24:4; 30:19; 32:1; 34:2

Joshua

11:3; 19:49

Judges

5:4; 21:21

Ruth

2:10

1 Samuel

2:8; 5:4; 9:4; 9:4; 9:5; 9:16; 13:7; 14:4

2 Samuel

22:8

1 Kings

2:2; 10:24; 15:20

2 Kings

5:2; 5:4; 5:19; 11:18; 11:19; 15:5; 16:15; 18:32; 18:35; 19:11; 19:15; 19:15; 19:17; 19:19; 21:24

1 Chronicles

1:43; 13:2; 21:16; 29:11

2 Chronicles

2:11; 11:23

Ezra

9:12

Nehemiah

9:35

Job

9:6; 10:21; 10:22; 12:1; 16:18; 20:15; 26:7; 34:13; 37:12; 38:4

Psalms

18:8; 27:11; 27:13; 33:8; 42:7; 46:2; 46:6; 60:4; 66:4; 72:6; 72:16; 77:19; 78:12; 82:5; 99:1; 104:5; 105:44; 106:27; 107:3; 107:34; 107:35; 114:7; 116:9; 135:7; 139:15; 142:6; 143:10; 146:6

Proverbs

8:31; 17:24; 30:4

Ecclesiastes

1:4; 10:16; 10:17

Isaiah

1:2; 2:19; 2:21; 7:18; 23:1; 23:13; 24:18; 24:18; 24:19; 24:20; 27:13; 36:7; 36:20; 37:11; 37:16; 37:16; 37:18; 37:20; 40:28; 41:5; 41:9; 42:10; 43:6; 44:23; 48:13; 51:13; 51:16; 62:4

Jeremiah

6:19; 16:15; 22:29; 25:20; 25:26; 25:29; 25:30; 26:6; 28:8; 48:21

Lamentations

2:1

Ezekiel

7:27; 14:13; 20:32; 22:4; 39:27

Daniel

9:7; 11:40; 11:42

Amos

8:8

Micah

1:2

Zechariah

4:10; 4:14; 12:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H776 matches the Hebrew אֶרֶץ ('ereṣ),
which occurs 2,504 times in 2,190 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 44 (Gen 34:1–Gen 42:13)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:1 - And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:2 - And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, H776 saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:10 - And ye shall dwell with us: and the land H776 shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:21 - These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, H776 and trade therein; for the land, H776 behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:30 - And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, H776 among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:6 - So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land H776 of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:12 - And the land H776 which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:16 - And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way H776 to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22 - And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, H776 that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:5 - And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land H776 of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:6 - And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land H776 of Canaan; and went into the country H776 from the face of his brother Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:7 - For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land H776 wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:16 - Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land H776 of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:17 - And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land H776 of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:20 - These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; H776 Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:21 - And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land H776 of Edom.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:30 - Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are the dukes that came of Hori, among their dukes in the land H776 of Seir.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:31 - And these are the kings that reigned in the land H776 of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:34 - And Jobab died, and Husham of the land H776 of Temani reigned in his stead.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:43 - Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land H776 of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:1 - And Jacob dwelt in the land H776 wherein his father was a stranger, in the land H776 of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:10 - And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? H776
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:9 - And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, H776 lest that he should give seed to his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:15 - For indeed I was stolen away out of the land H776 of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19 - And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land H776 of Egypt for badness:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:29 - Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land H776 of Egypt:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30 - And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land H776 of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; H776
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:31 - And the plenty shall not be known in the land H776 by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:33 - Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land H776 of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:34 - Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, H776 and take up the fifth part of the land H776 of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36 - And that food shall be for store to the land H776 against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land H776 of Egypt; that the land H776 perish not through the famine.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:41 - And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land H776 of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:43 - And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land H776 of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:44 - And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land H776 of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:45 - And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land H776 of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:46 - And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land H776 of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:47 - And in the seven plenteous years the earth H776 brought forth by handfuls.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48 - And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land H776 of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:52 - And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land H776 of my affliction.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:53 - And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land H776 of Egypt, were ended.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; H776 but in all the land H776 of Egypt there was bread.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:55 - And when all the land H776 of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:56 - And the famine was over all the face of the earth: H776 And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land H776 of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:57 - And all countries H776 came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:5 - And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land H776 of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:6 - And Joseph was the governor over the land, H776 and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: H776 and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:7 - And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land H776 of Canaan to buy food.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:9 - And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land H776 ye are come.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:12 - And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land H776 ye are come.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:13 - And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land H776 of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

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