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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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Contracted from a root word
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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 250 times in 223 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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‘AND YOU, BETHLEHEM, IN THE LAND OF JUDAH,

ARE NOT IN ANY WAY LEAST AMONG THE LEADERS OF JUDAH;

FOR FROM YOU SHALL COME A RULER

WHO WILL SHEPHERD MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:20 - “Get up! Take the Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child’s life are dead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:21 - Then Joseph got up, and took the Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel.

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“THE LAND OF ZEBULUN AND THE LAND OF NAPHTALI,

BY THE WAY OF THE SEA, BEYOND THE JORDAN, GALILEE [in the district] OF THE GENTILES—

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“Blessed [inwardly peaceful, spiritually secure, worthy of respect] are the [fn]gentle [the kind-hearted, the sweet-spirited, the self-controlled], for they will inherit the earth.

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“You are the [fn]salt of the earth; but if the salt has [fn]lost its taste (purpose), how can it be made salty? It is no longer good for anything, but to be thrown out and walked on by people [when the walkways are wet and slippery].

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:18 - “For I assure you and most solemnly say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke [of the pen] will pass from the Law until all things [which it foreshadows] are accomplished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:35 - or by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet; or by Jerusalem, for it is THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:10 -

‘[fn]Your kingdom come,

Your [fn]will be done

On earth as it is in heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:19 -

“Do not store up for yourselves [material] 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 and the power on earth to forgive sins”—then He said to the paralytic, “Get up, pick up your stretcher and go home.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:26 - And the news about this spread throughout all that district.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:31 - But they went out and spread the news about Him throughout that whole district.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:15 - “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of [fn]Sodom and Gomorrah than for that city [since it rejected the Messiah’s messenger].

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:29 - “Are not two little sparrows sold for a [fn]copper coin? And 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 on the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword [of division between belief and unbelief].

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:24 - “But I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment, than for you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:25 -

At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth [I openly and joyfully acknowledge Your great wisdom], that You have hidden these things [these spiritual truths] from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants [to new believers, to those seeking God’s will and purpose].

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:40 - for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:42 - “The Queen of the South (Sheba) will stand up [as a witness] at the judgment against this generation, and will condemn it because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and now, something greater than Solomon is here.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:5 - “Other seed fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil; and at once they sprang up because they had no depth of soil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:8 - “Other seed fell on good soil and yielded grain, some a hundred times as much [as was sown], some sixty [times as much], and some thirty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:23 - “And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands and grasps it; he indeed bears fruit and yields, some a hundred times [as much as was sown], some sixty [times as much], and some thirty.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:24 - But the boat [by this time] was already a [fn]long distance from land, tossed and battered by the waves; for the wind was against them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:34 -

When they had crossed over [the sea], they went ashore at Gennesaret.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:35 - He directed the crowd to sit down on the ground,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:19 - “I will give you the keys (authority) of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind [forbid, declare to be improper and unlawful] on earth [fn]will have [already] been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose [permit, declare lawful] on earth [fn]will have [already] been loosed in heaven.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:25 - Peter answered, “Yes.” And when he came home, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly rulers collect duties or taxes, from their sons or from strangers?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:18 - “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, whatever you bind [forbid, declare to be improper and unlawful] on earth [fn]shall have [already] been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose [permit, declare lawful] on earth [fn]shall have [already] been loosed in heaven.

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“Again I say to you, that if two [fn]believers on earth agree [that is, are of one mind, in harmony] about anything that they ask [within the will of God], it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:9 - “Do not call anyone on earth [who guides you spiritually] your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:30 - “And at that time the sign of the Son of Man [coming in His glory] will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth [and especially Israel] will mourn [regretting their rebellion and rejection of the Messiah], and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN with power and great glory [in brilliance and splendor].

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:35 - “Heaven and earth [as now known] will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:25 - ‘So I was afraid [to lose the talent], and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is your own.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:45 -

Now from the sixth hour (noon) there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour (3:00 p.m.).

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:51 - And [at once] the veil [of the Holy of Holies] of the temple was [fn]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 - Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority (all power of absolute rule) 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 [fn]Son of Man has the authority and power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralyzed man,

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Again Jesus began to teach beside the sea [of Galilee]. And a very large crowd gathered around Him, so He got into a boat [anchoring it a short distance out] on the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the shore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:5 - “Other seed fell on rocks where there was not much soil; and immediately a plant sprang up [fn]because the soil had no depth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:8 - “And other seed fell into good soil, and as the plants grew and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundred times [as much as had been sown].”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:20 - “And those [in the last group] are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word [of God, the good news regarding the way of salvation] and accept it and bear fruit—thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much [as was sown].”

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Then He said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who throws seed on the ground;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:28 - “The earth produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head [of grain], then the mature grain in the head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:31 - “It is like a mustard seed, which, when it is sown on the ground, even though it is [fn]smaller than all the [other] seeds that are [sown] on the soil,

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Now when evening had come, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and Jesus was alone on the land.

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When they had crossed over [the sea], they reached the land of Gennesaret and anchored at the shore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:6 - He directed the people to sit down on the ground; and taking the seven loaves, He gave thanks and broke them, and [repeatedly] gave them to His disciples to set before them, and they served the crowd.

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