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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

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Strong's Number G1093 matches the Greek γῆ (gē),
which occurs 250 times in 223 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:6 - ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
Are not the least among the rulers of Judah;
For out of you shall come a Ruler
Who will shepherd My people Israel.’ ”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:20 - saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the young Child’s life are dead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:21 - Then he arose, took the young Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:15 - “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan,
Galilee of the Gentiles:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:5 - Blessed are the meek,
For they shall inherit the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:13 - “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:18 - “For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:35 - “nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:10 - Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:19 - “Do not lay up for yourselves 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 that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—then He said to the paralytic, “Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:26 - And the report of this went out into all that land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:31 - But when they had departed, they spread the news about Him in all that country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:15 - “Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:29 - “Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And 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 came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:25 - At that time Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:40 - “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, 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 will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:5 - “Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:8 - “But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:23 - “But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:24 - But the boat was now in the middle of the sea,[fn] tossed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:34 - When they had crossed over, they came to the land of[fn] Gennesaret.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:35 - So He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:19 - “And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed[fn] in heaven.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:25 - He said, “Yes.” And when he had come into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth take customs or taxes, from their sons or from strangers?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:18 - “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:19 - “Again I say[fn] to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, 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 your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:35 - “that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:30 - “Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:35 - “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:25 - ‘And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:45

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:45 - Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:51 - Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:18 - And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:10 - “But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:1 - And again He began to teach by the sea. And a great multitude was gathered to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole multitude was on the land facing the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:5 - “Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:8 - “But other seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:20 - “But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:26 - And He said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:28 - “For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full 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, is smaller than all the seeds on earth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:47 - Now when evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea; and He was alone on the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:53 - When they had crossed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret and anchored there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:6 - So He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. And He took the seven loaves and gave thanks, broke them and gave them to His disciples to set before them; and they set them before the multitude.

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