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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 272 times in 236 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Jer 1:1–Jer 12:4)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:1 - The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land H776 of Benjamin:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:14 - Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:18 - For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, H776 against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:2 - Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land H776 that was not sown.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land H776 of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land H776 of deserts and of pits, through a land H776 of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land H776 that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:7 - And I brought you into a plentiful country, H776 to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, H776 and made mine heritage an abomination.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land H776 waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31 - O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land H776 of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:1 - They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land H776 be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land H776 with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9 - And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, H776 and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:16 - And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, H776 in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:18 - In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land H776 of the north to the land H776 that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:19 - But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, H776 a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:5 - Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: H776 cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 - The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land H776 desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:16 - Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, H776 and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:20 - Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land H776 is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:23 - I beheld the earth, H776 and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:27 - For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land H776 shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:28 - For this shall the earth H776 mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:19 - And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, H776 so shall ye serve strangers in a land H776 that is not yours.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:30 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; H776
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:8 - Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land H776 not inhabited.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:12 - And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, H776 saith the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:19 - Hear, O earth: H776 behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:20 - To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? H776 your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:22 - Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, H776 and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:7 - Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land H776 that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:22 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land H776 of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:25 - Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land H776 of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:33 - And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; H776 and none shall fray them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34 - Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land H776 shall be desolate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:16 - The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land H776 trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, H776 and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19 - Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: H776 Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:3 - And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; H776 for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:12 - Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land H776 perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:19 - For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, H776 because our dwellings have cast us out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:24 - But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: H776 for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:10 - But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth H776 shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:12 - He hath made the earth H776 by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:13 - When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; H776 he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:17 - Gather up thy wares out of the land, H776 O inhabitant of the fortress.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:18 - For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land H776 at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, H776 to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:4 - Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land H776 of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5 - That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land H776 flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:7 - For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land H776 of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 - But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land H776 of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4 - How long shall the land H776 mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

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