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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 2,505 times in 2,190 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 44 (Gen 18:18–Gen 33:18)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:18 - seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:25 - Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:1 - The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:23 - The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:28 - And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:31 - And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:15 - And Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:23 - Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:34 - And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:2 - He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:18 - and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:2 - And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:7 - Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:12 - Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:13 - And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:15 - “My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels[fn] of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:19 - After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:3 - that I may make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:4 - but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:7 - The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:37 - My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:52 - When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62 - Now Isaac had returned from Beer-lahai-roi and was dwelling in the Negeb.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:6 - But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1 - Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:2 - And the LORD appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3 - Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4 - I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:12 - And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The LORD blessed him,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth,[fn] saying, “For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:28 - May God give you of the dew of heaven
and of the fatness of the earth
and plenty of grain and wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:39 - Then Isaac his father answered and said to him:
“Behold, away from[fn] the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be,
and away from[fn] the dew of heaven on high.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:46 - Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I loathe my life because of the Hittite women.[fn] If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:4 - May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:12 - And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder[fn] set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:13 - And behold, the LORD stood above it[fn] and said, “I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:1 - Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 - As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:3 - Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 - I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:18 - He drove away all his livestock, all his property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:3 - And Jacob sent[fn] messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:9 - And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:3 - He himself went on before them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 - And Jacob came safely[fn] to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.

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