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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 1 / 44 (Gen 1:1–Gen 8:13)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:1 -

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth H776.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2 - And the earth H776 was [fn]formless and void, and darkness was over the [fn]surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the [fn]surface of the waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:10 - And God called the dry land earth H776, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:11 - Then God said, “Let the earth H776 sprout [fn]vegetation, [fn]plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth H776 bearing fruit after [fn]their kind [fn]with seed in them”; and it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12 - And the earth H776 brought forth [fn]vegetation, [fn]plants yielding seed after [fn]their kind, and trees bearing fruit [fn]with seed in them, after [fn]their kind; and God saw that it was good.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:15 - and let them be for [fn]lights in the [fn]expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth H776”; and it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:17 - And God placed them in the [fn]expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth H776,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:20 -

Then God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth H776 [fn]across the face of the [fn]expanse of the heavens.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:22 - Then God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth H776.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:24 -

Then God said, “Let the earth H776 bring forth living creatures after [fn]their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth H776 after [fn]their kind”; and it was so.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:25 - God made the beasts of the earth H776 after [fn]their kind, and the cattle after [fn]their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26 -

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, so that they will have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the [fn]sky and over the cattle and over all the earth H776 and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth H776.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth H776, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the [fn]sky and over every living thing that creeps on the earth H776.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - Then God said, “Behold, I have given to you every plant yielding seed that is on the [fn]surface of all the earth H776, and every tree [fn]which has the fruit of the tree yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - and to every beast of the earth H776 and to every bird of the [fn]sky and to every thing that creeps on the earth H776 [fn]which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:1 -

Thus the heavens and the earth H776 were completed, and all their hosts.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:4 -

These are the generations of the heavens and the earth H776 when they were created, in the day that [fn]Yahweh God made earth H776 and heaven.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth H776, and no plant of the field had yet grown, for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth H776, and there was no man to [fn]cultivate the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:6 - But a [fn]stream would rise from the earth H776 and water the whole [fn]surface of the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:11 - The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that [fn]went around the whole land H776 of Havilah, where there is gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:12 - Now the gold of that land H776 is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:13 - And the name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that [fn]went around the whole land H776 of Cush.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:12 - “When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth H776.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:14 - “Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth H776, and it will be that whoever finds me will kill me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:16 -

Then Cain went out from the presence of Yahweh and [fn]settled in the land H776 of [fn]Nod, east of Eden.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:4 - The Nephilim were on the earth H776 in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:5 -

Then Yahweh saw that the evil of man was great on the earth H776, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:6 - And Yahweh regretted that He had made man on the earth H776, and He was grieved [fn]in His heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:11 -

Now the earth H776 was corrupt before God, and the earth H776 was filled with violence.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:12 - And God saw the earth H776, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth H776.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:13 -

Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth H776 is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth H776.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:17 - “As for Me, behold I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth H776, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth H776 shall breathe its last.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:3 - also of the birds of the [fn]sky, [fn]by sevens, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of all the earth H776.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4 - “For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth H776 forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:6 -

Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water [fn]came upon the earth H776.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:10 - Now it happened after the seven days, that the water of the flood [fn]came upon the earth H776.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:12 - Then the rain [fn]came upon the earth H776 for forty days and forty nights.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:14 - they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after [fn]their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth H776 after its kind, and every bird after its kind—every [fn]fowl, every winged creature.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17 -

Then the flood [fn]came upon the earth H776 for forty days, and the water multiplied and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth H776.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:18 - And the water prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth H776, and the ark went on the [fn]surface of the water.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:19 - And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth H776, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:21 - And all flesh that [fn]moved on the earth H776 breathed its last, that is birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth H776, as well as all mankind.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:23 - Thus He blotted out [fn]every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the [fn]sky, and they were blotted out from the earth H776; and only Noah remained, and those that were with him in the ark.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:24 - And the water prevailed upon the earth H776 150 days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:1 -

Then God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth H776, and the water subsided.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:3 - and the water receded from the earth H776, going forth and returning, and at the end of 150 days the water decreased.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:7 - and he sent out a raven, and it went out flying back and forth until the water was dried up [fn]from the earth H776.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9 - but the dove found no resting place for the sole of its foot, so it returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the [fn]surface of all the earth H776. Then he stretched out his hand and took it and brought it into the ark to himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11 - And the dove came to him toward [fn]evening, and behold, in its [fn]beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth H776.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 -

Now it happened in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up [fn]from the earth H776. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the [fn]surface of the ground was dried up.


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