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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 190 times in 166 verses in 'Isa' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Isa 1:2–Isa 19:18)

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:2 - Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: H776 for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your country H776 is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:19 - If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: H776
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:7 - Their land H776 also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land H776 is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:8 - Their land H776 also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:19 - And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21 - To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:26 - And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:2 - In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth H776 shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:8 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! H776
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:26 - And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: H776 and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:30 - And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, H776 behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:3 - And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth H776 is full of his glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:12 - And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:18 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land H776 of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:22 - And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:24 - With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land H776 shall become briers and thorns.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:8 - And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, H776 O Immanuel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:9 - Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: H776 gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:22 - And they shall look unto the earth; H776 and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:1 - Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land H776 of Zebulun and the land H776 of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:2 - The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land H776 of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:19 - Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land H776 darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:14 - And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; H776 and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:23 - For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:4 - But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: H776 and he shall smite the earth H776 with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:9 - They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth H776 shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:12 - And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:16 - And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land H776 of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 12:5 - Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:5 - They come from a far country, H776 from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 - Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land H776 desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:13 - Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth H776 shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:14 - And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:7 - The whole earth H776 is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:9 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; H776 it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:12 - How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, H776 which didst weaken the nations!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:16 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth H776 to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:20 - Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, H776 and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:21 - Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, H776 nor fill the face of the world with cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:25 - That I will break the Assyrian in my land, H776 and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:26 - This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: H776 and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:1 - Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land H776 from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:4 - Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:1 - Woe to the land H776 shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:2 - That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land H776 the rivers have spoiled!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:3 - All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, H776 see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:6 - They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: H776 and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth H776 shall winter upon them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:7 - In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land H776 the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:18 - In that day shall five cities in the land H776 of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

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