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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 5 / 44 (Gen 42:29–Gen 50:11)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:29 - And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land H776 of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:30 - The man, who is the lord of the land, H776 spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32 - We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land H776 of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:33 - And the man, the lord of the country, H776 said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:34 - And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:1 - And the famine was sore in the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:11 - And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land H776 in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:26 - And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 - Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land H776 of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:11 - Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, H776 and opened every man his sack.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:14 - And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:6 - For these two years hath the famine been in the land: H776 and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:7 - And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, H776 and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:8 - So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land H776 of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:10 - And thou shalt dwell in the land H776 of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:17 - And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land H776 of Canaan;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:18 - And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land H776 of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:19 - Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land H776 of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:20 - Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land H776 of Egypt is yours.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:25 - And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land H776 of Canaan unto Jacob their father,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:26 - And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land H776 of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:6 - And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land H776 of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:12 - And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land H776 of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:20 - And unto Joseph in the land H776 of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:28 - And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land H776 of Goshen.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:31 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land H776 of Canaan, are come unto me;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:34 - That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land H776 of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:1 - Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land H776 of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land H776 of Goshen.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land H776 are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land H776 of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land H776 of Goshen.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:6 - The land H776 of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land H776 make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land H776 of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:11 - And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land H776 of Egypt, in the best of the land, H776 in the land H776 of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:13 - And there was no bread in all the land; H776 for the famine was very sore, so that the land H776 of Egypt and all the land H776 of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:14 - And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land H776 of Egypt, and in the land H776 of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:15 - And when money failed in the land H776 of Egypt, and in the land H776 of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 - And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land H776 became Pharaoh's.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:27 - And Israel dwelt in the land H776 of Egypt, in the country H776 of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:28 - And Jacob lived in the land H776 of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:3 - And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land H776 of Canaan, and blessed me,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4 - And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land H776 to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:5 - And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land H776 of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land H776 of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way H776 to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:12 - And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:16 - The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:21 - And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land H776 of your fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:15 - And he saw that rest was good, and the land H776 that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land H776 of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:5 - My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land H776 of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:7 - And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land H776 of Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8 - And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land H776 of Goshen.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:11 - And when the inhabitants of the land, H776 the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

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