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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 2 / 44 (Gen 8:14–Gen 18:2)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:14 - And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth H776 was dry.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17 - “Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth H776, that they may [fn]breed abundantly on the earth H776, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth H776.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:19 - Every animal, every crawling thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth H776, went out [fn]by their families from the ark.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:22 -

“While the earth H776 remains,

Seedtime and harvest,

Cold and heat,

Summer and winter,

And day and night

Shall not cease.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:1 -

Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth H776.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:2 - “The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every animal of the earth H776 and on every bird of the sky; on everything that crawls on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. They are handed over to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:7 -

“As for you, be fruitful and multiply;

[fn]Populate the earth H776 abundantly and multiply in it.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:10 - and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth H776 with you; of all that comes out of the ark, every animal of the earth H776.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:11 - “I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be eliminated by the waters of a flood, nor shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth H776.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:13 - I have set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall [fn]serve as a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth H776.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:14 - “It shall come about, when I make a cloud appear over the earth H776, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:16 - “When the rainbow is in the cloud, then I will look at it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth H776.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:17 - And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth H776.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:19 - These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth H776 was [fn]populated.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:5 - From these the people of the coastlands of the nations [fn]were separated into their lands H776, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:8 - Now Cush fathered Nimrod; he [fn]became a mighty one on the earth H776.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:10 - And the beginning of his kingdom was [fn]Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land H776 of Shinar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:11 - From that land H776 he went to Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:20 - These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands H776, and by their nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:25 - Two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was [fn]Peleg, for in his days the earth H776 was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:31 - These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands H776, and according to their nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 -

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their descendants, by their nations; and out of these the nations were separated on the earth H776 after the flood.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:1 -

Now all the earth H776 [fn]used the same language and [fn]the same words.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:2 - And it came about, as they journeyed [fn]east, that they found a plain in the land H776 of Shinar and [fn]settled there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth H776.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth H776; and they stopped building the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:9 - Therefore it was named [fn]Babel, because there the LORD confused the [fn]language of all the earth H776; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth H776.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:28 - Haran died [fn]during the lifetime of his father Terah in the land H776 of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 -

Now Terah took his son Abram, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they departed [fn]together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land H776 of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran and [fn]settled there.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:1 -

Now the LORD said to Abram,

“Go from your country H776,

And from your relatives

And from your father’s house,

To the land H776 which I will show you;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the [fn]people which they had acquired in Haran, and they [fn]set out for the land H776 of Canaan; so they came to the land H776 of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:6 - Abram passed through the land H776 as far as the site of Shechem, to the [fn]oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land H776 at that time.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:7 - And the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your [fn]descendants I will give this land H776.” So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 -

Now there was a famine in the land H776; so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a time, because the famine was severe in the land H776.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:6 - And the land H776 could not [fn]support both of them [fn]while living together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to remain together.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:7 - And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land H776 at that time.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:9 - “Is the entire land H776 not before you? Please separate from me; if you choose the left, then I will go to the right; or if you choose the right, then I will go to the left.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - Lot raised his eyes and saw all the [fn]vicinity of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywherethis was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the LORD, like the land H776 of Egypt [fn]going toward Zoar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - Abram [fn]settled in the land H776 of Canaan, while Lot [fn]settled in the cities of the [fn]vicinity of the Jordan, and moved his tents as far as Sodom.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:15 - for all the land H776 which you see I will give to you and to your [fn]descendants forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:16 - “I will make your [fn]descendants as plentiful as the dust of the earth H776, so that if anyone can count the dust of the earth H776, then your [fn]descendants could also be counted.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:17 - “Arise, walk about in the land H776 through its length and width; for I will give it to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:19 - And he blessed him and said,

“Blessed be Abram of [fn]God Most High,

[fn]Possessor of heaven and earth H776;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:22 - But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have [fn]sworn to the LORD [fn]God Most High, [fn]Possessor of heaven and earth H776,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:7 - And He said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land H776 to [fn]possess it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - Then God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your [fn]descendants will be strangers in a land H776 that is not theirs, [fn]where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,

“To your [fn]descendants I have given this land H776,

From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - And so after Abram had lived ten years in the land H776 of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave woman, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8 - “And I will give to you and to your [fn]descendants after you the land H776 where you live as a stranger, all the land H776 of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:2 - When he raised his eyes and looked, behold, three men were standing opposite him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed down to the ground H776,

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