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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 2,504 times in 2,190 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 11 / 44 (Num 32:1–Deu 2:27)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:1 - Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land H776 of Jazer, and the land H776 of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:4 - Even the country H776 which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land H776 for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:5 - Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land H776 be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:7 - And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land H776 which the LORD hath given them?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:8 - Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:9 - For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, H776 they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land H776 which the LORD had given them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:17 - But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22 - And the land H776 be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land H776 shall be your possession before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29 - And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land H776 shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land H776 of Gilead for a possession:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:30 - But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land H776 of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land H776 of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 - And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, H776 with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country H776 round about.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:1 - These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land H776 of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:37 - And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land H776 of Edom.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:38 - And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land H776 of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:40 - And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land H776 of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:51 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land H776 of Canaan;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land H776 from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:53 - And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, H776 and dwell therein: for I have given you the land H776 to possess it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 - And ye shall divide the land H776 by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:55 - But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land H776 from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land H776 wherein ye dwell.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:2 - Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land H776 of Canaan; (this is the land H776 that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land H776 of Canaan with the coasts thereof:)
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:12 - And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land H776 with the coasts thereof round about.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:13 - And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land H776 which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:17 - These are the names of the men which shall divide the land H776 unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:18 - And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land H776 by inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:29 - These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land H776 of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:10 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land H776 of Canaan;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:14 - Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land H776 of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28 - Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land H776 of his possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32 - And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, H776 until the death of the priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:33 - So ye shall not pollute the land H776 wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: H776 and the land H776 cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:34 - Defile not therefore the land H776 which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:2 - And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land H776 for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:5 - On this side Jordan, in the land H776 of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land H776 of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:8 - Behold, I have set the land H776 before you: go in and possess the land H776 which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:21 - Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land H776 before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:22 - And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, H776 and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:25 - And they took of the fruit of the land H776 in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land H776 which the LORD our God doth give us.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:27 - And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land H776 of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:35 - Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, H776 which I sware to give unto your fathers,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:36 - Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land H776 that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:5 - Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, H776 no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:9 - And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land H776 for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:12 - The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land H776 of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:19 - And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land H776 of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:20 - (That also was accounted a land H776 of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:24 - Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: H776 begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:27 - Let me pass through thy land: H776 I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.

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