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γῆ

earth

‘earth’ is one of 6 main senses fuller range ↓

G1093 Strong's Greek
gē Transliteration
/ghay/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 249 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

γη — transliterated gē — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “earth.” Its lexical range runs to 6 senses. Spanning 222 verses in 14 books, it ranks among the common words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Revelation (30% of all occurrences). Debuting at Matthew 2:6, it then recurs through the corpus. See the sense tree, 222-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
country
Modern gloss
earth
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1093 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

222
distinct verses
The word appears in 222 distinct verses.
14 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 14 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:6
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:6.
Revelation 21:24
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 21:24.
#63
by frequency
Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 63 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 222 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 91 · 41%
  • Acts 30 · 14%
  • Pauline Epistles 14 · 6%
  • General Epistles 20 · 9%
  • Revelation 67 · 30%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 222 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 91 verses · 41%
  • Johannine 78 verses · 35%
  • Revelation 67 verses · 30%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 55 verses · 25%
  • Pauline corpus 14 verses · 6%
  • Hebrews 10 verses · 5%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 10 verses · 5%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Earth 187×, Land 42×, Ground 18×
  • American Standard Version: Earth 181×, Land 44×, Ground 16×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Earth 157×, Land 37×, Ground 19×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Earth 167×, Land 47×, Ground 19×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1093 across 250 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Earth” 187×
  • “Land” 42×
  • “Ground” 18×
  • “Country” 2×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1093 across 246 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Earth” 181×
  • “Land” 44×
  • “Ground” 16×

Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1093 across 238 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Earth” 157×
  • “Land” 37×
  • “Ground” 19×
  • “Soil” 13×
  • “Ashore” 3×
  • “Shore” 3×

Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 12 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1093 across 254 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Earth” 167×
  • “Land” 47×
  • “Ground” 19×
  • “Soil” 13×
  • “A” 3×
  • “Region” 2×

Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 6 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. arable land
  2. the ground, the earth as a standing place
  3. the main land as opposed to the sea or water
  4. the earth as opposed to the heavens
  5. the inhabited earth, the abode of men and animals
  6. a country, land enclosed within fixed boundaries, a tract of land, territory, region

Word origin

Origin: contracted from a root word

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TDNT: 12:17,1

Contracted from a primary word; soil ; by extension a region or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application): - country earth (-ly) ground land world.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 4 distinct written forms G1093 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
γῆς gē̂s Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Matthew 5:13 133
γῆν gē̂n Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 2:20 79
γῆ gē̂ Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 5:18 24
γῇ gē̂ Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 5:35 13

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1093, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word γη appears 2,715 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2,348 verses in 38 books.

2,715
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
2,348
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
38 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 38 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1093) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 2,348. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1093) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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