Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H776
אֶ֫רֶץ
e.rets · “land: country/planet”
Used 2,505 times across 39 books
Definition
: country/field
1) land, earth
1a) earth
1a1) whole earth (as opposed to a part)
1a2) earth (as opposed to heaven)
1a3) earth (inhabitants)
1b) land
1b1) country, territory
1b2) district, region
1b3) tribal territory
1b4) piece of ground
1b5) land of Canaan, Israel
1b6) inhabitants of land
1b7) Sheol, land without return, (under) world
1b8) city (-state)
1c) ground, surface of the earth
1c1) ground
1c2) soil
1d) (in phrases)
1d1) people of the land
1d2) space or distance of country (in measurements of distance)
1d3) level or plain country
1d4) land of the living
1d5) end(s) of the earth
1e) (almost wholly late in usage)
1e1) lands, countries
1e1a) often in contrast to Canaan
1) land, earth
1a) earth
1a1) whole earth (as opposed to a part)
1a2) earth (as opposed to heaven)
1a3) earth (inhabitants)
1b) land
1b1) country, territory
1b2) district, region
1b3) tribal territory
1b4) piece of ground
1b5) land of Canaan, Israel
1b6) inhabitants of land
1b7) Sheol, land without return, (under) world
1b8) city (-state)
1c) ground, surface of the earth
1c1) ground
1c2) soil
1d) (in phrases)
1d1) people of the land
1d2) space or distance of country (in measurements of distance)
1d3) level or plain country
1d4) land of the living
1d5) end(s) of the earth
1e) (almost wholly late in usage)
1e1) lands, countries
1e1a) often in contrast to Canaan
Where it appears
Genesis311
Exodus136
Leviticus82
Numbers123
Deuteronomy197
Joshua107
Judges60
Ruth4
1 Samuel52
2 Samuel40
1 Kings56
2 Kings71
1 Chronicles39
2 Chronicles75
Ezra13
Nehemiah20
Esther2
Job57
Psalms190
Proverbs21
Ecclesiastes13
Song of Solomon2
Isaiah190
Jeremiah272
Lamentations11
Ezekiel198
Daniel20
Hosea20
Joel12
Amos23
Obadiah1
Jonah2
Micah15
Nahum3
Habakkuk10
Zephaniah8
Haggai5
Zechariah42
Malachi2
In the text
Genesis 1:1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.Genesis 1:2And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.Genesis 1:10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.Genesis 1:11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.Genesis 1:12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.Genesis 1:15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.Genesis 1:17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,Genesis 1:20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.Genesis 1:22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.Genesis 1:24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
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