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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 2,698 times in 2,333 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:1 - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2 - Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:10 - God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:11 - Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12 - The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:14 - And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:15 - and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:17 - God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:20 - And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:22 - God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:24 - And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:25 - God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26 - Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[fn] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:1 - Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:4 - This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[fn] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:6 - but streams[fn] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7 - Then the LORD God formed a man[fn] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9 - The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:11 - The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:12 - (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin[fn] and onyx are also there.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:13 - The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:19 - Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:14 - So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 - To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:19 - By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23 - So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:2 - Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:3 - In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:10 - The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:11 - Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:12 - When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:14 - Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:16 - So Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and lived in the land of Nod,[fn] east of Eden.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:29 - He named him Noah[fn] and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:1 - When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:4 - The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:5 - The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:6 - The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:7 - So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:11 - Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:12 - God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:13 - So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:17 - I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:20 - Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:3 - and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.

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27. LOAD PAGE 27 Job 10:22–Job 38:19

28. LOAD PAGE 28 Job 38:26–Psa 46:10

29. LOAD PAGE 29 Psa 47:2–Psa 78:69

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37. LOAD PAGE 37 Jer 11:5–Jer 25:5

38. LOAD PAGE 38 Jer 25:9–Jer 35:15

39. LOAD PAGE 39 Jer 35:19–Jer 50:22

40. LOAD PAGE 40 Jer 50:23–Eze 9:9

41. LOAD PAGE 41 Eze 10:16–Eze 23:27

42. LOAD PAGE 42 Eze 23:48–Eze 34:27

43. LOAD PAGE 43 Eze 34:28–Eze 48:29

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47. LOAD PAGE 47 Zec 3:9–Mal 4:6

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