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Lexicon :: Strong's H776 - 'ereṣ

Aa
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 9 / 44 (Lev 25:10–Num 13:29)

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10 - And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land H776 unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:18 - Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land H776 in safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:19 - And the land H776 shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23 - The land H776 shall not be sold for ever: for the land H776 is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:24 - And in all the land H776 of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31 - But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: H776 they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:38 - I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land H776 of Egypt, to give you the land H776 of Canaan, and to be your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:42 - For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land H776 of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: H776 and they shall be your possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:55 - For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land H776 of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:1 - Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, H776 to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:4 - Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land H776 shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:5 - And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land H776 safely.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:6 - And I will give peace in the land, H776 and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, H776 neither shall the sword go through your land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:13 - I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land H776 of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:19 - And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth H776 as brass:
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:20 - And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land H776 shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land H776 yield their fruits.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:32 - And I will bring the land H776 into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land H776 shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:34 - Then shall the land H776 enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in H776 your enemies' land; H776 even then shall the land H776 rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:36 - And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands H776 of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:38 - And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land H776 of your enemies shall eat you up.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:39 - And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in H776 your enemies' lands; H776 and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:41 - And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land H776 of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:42 - Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and H776 I will remember the land. H776
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - The land also H776 shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:44 - And yet for all that, when they be in the land H776 of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45 - But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land H776 of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land H776 did belong.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:30 - And all the tithe of the land, H776 whether of the seed of the land, H776 or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD.
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.

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