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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 123 times in 104 verses in 'Num' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Num 1:1–Num 20:12)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1 - And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land H776 of Egypt, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:13 - Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land H776 of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:17 - For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land H776 of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1 - And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land H776 of Egypt, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14 - And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:9 - And if ye go to war in your land H776 against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:30 - And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, H776 and to my kindred.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:31 - And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:2 - Send thou men, that they may search the land H776 of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:16 - These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. H776 And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:17 - And Moses sent them to spy out the land H776 of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:18 - And see the land, H776 what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19 - And what the land H776 is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:20 - And what the land H776 is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. H776 Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:21 - So they went up, and searched the land H776 from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:25 - And they returned from searching of the land H776 after forty days.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:26 - And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:27 - And they told him, and said, We came unto the land H776 whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:28 - Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, H776 and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29 - The Amalekites dwell in the land H776 of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:32 - And they brought up an evil report of the land H776 which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, H776 through which we have gone to search it, is a land H776 that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2 - And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land H776 of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:3 - And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, H776 to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:6 - And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, H776 rent their clothes:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:7 - And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, H776 which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:8 - If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, H776 and give it us; a land H776 which floweth with milk and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:9 - Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; H776 for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:14 - And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: H776 for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:16 - Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land H776 which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:21 - But as truly as I live, all the earth H776 shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:23 - Surely they shall not see the land H776 which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:24 - But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land H776 whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:30 - Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, H776 concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:31 - But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land H776 which ye have despised.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:34 - After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, H776 even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:36 - And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, H776 who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, H776
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:37 - Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, H776 died by the plague before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:38 - But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, H776 lived still.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:2 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land H776 of your habitations, which I give unto you,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:18 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land H776 whither I bring you,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:19 - Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, H776 ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:41 - I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land H776 of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land H776 that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:14 - Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land H776 that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:32 - And the earth H776 opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:33 - They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth H776 closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:34 - And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth H776 swallow us up also.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:13 - And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, H776 which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:20 - And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, H776 neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:12 - And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land H776 which I have given them.

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