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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 198 times in 173 verses in 'Eze' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Eze 1:3–Eze 20:15)

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:3 - The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land H776 of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:15 - Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth H776 by the living creatures, with his four faces.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:19 - And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, H776 the wheels were lifted up.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:21 - When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, H776 the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:5 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries H776 that are round about her.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6 - And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries H776 that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:8 - Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:14 - So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land H776 desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:2 - Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:7 - The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: H776 the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:21 - And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth H776 for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:23 - Make a chain: for the land H776 is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:27 - The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land H776 shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:3 - And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth H776 and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:12 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17 - Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land H776 with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9 - Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land H776 is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, H776 and the LORD seeth not.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:16 - And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, H776 the same wheels also turned not from beside them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:19 - And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth H776 in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD'S house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:15 - Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land H776 given in possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16 - Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, H776 yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries H776 where they shall come.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:17 - Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries H776 where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:6 - In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: H776 for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:12 - And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground H776 with his eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:13 - My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land H776 of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:15 - And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:19 - And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land H776 of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land H776 may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:20 - And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land H776 shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:14 - So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, H776 so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:13 - Son of man, when the land H776 sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:15 - If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, H776 and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:16 - Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land H776 shall be desolate.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:17 - Or if I bring a sword upon that land, H776 and say, Sword, go through the land; H776 so that I cut off man and beast from it:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:19 - Or if I send a pestilence into that land, H776 and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:8 - And I will make the land H776 desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 - And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land H776 of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:29 - Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land H776 of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:4 - He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land H776 of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:5 - He took also of the seed of the land, H776 and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13 - And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land: H776
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4 - The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land H776 of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:7 - And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land H776 was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:12 - But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, H776 and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:13 - And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:5 - And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land H776 of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:6 - In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land H776 of Egypt into a land H776 that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands: H776
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8 - But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land H776 of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:9 - But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land H776 of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:10 - Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land H776 of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:15 - Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land H776 which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; H776

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