γῆ
earth
‘earth’ is one of 6 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G1093 appears in the Book of Acts — 30 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts
- Acts 1:8 γῆς n gen sg fem But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."
- Acts 2:19 γῆς n gen sg fem I will show wonders in the sky above, And signs on the earth beneath; Blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.
- Acts 3:25 γῆς n gen sg fem You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.'
- Acts 4:24 γῆν n acc sg fem When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, "O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
- Acts 4:26 γῆς n gen sg fem The kings of the earth take a stand, And the rulers take council together, Against the Lord, and against his Christ.'
- Acts 7:3 γῆς γῆν n gen sg fem n acc sg fem and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.'
- Acts 7:4 γῆς γῆν n gen sg fem n acc sg fem Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.
- Acts 7:6 γῇ n dat sg fem God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
- Acts 7:29 γῇ n dat sg fem Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
- Acts 7:33 γῆ n nom sg fem The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
- Acts 7:36 γῇ n dat sg fem This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
- Acts 7:40 γῆς n gen sg fem saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'
- Acts 7:49 γῆ n nom sg fem 'heaven is my throne, And the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?' says the Lord; 'Or what is the place of my rest?
- Acts 8:33 γῆς n gen sg fem In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth."
- Acts 9:4 γῆν n acc sg fem He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
- Acts 9:8 γῆς n gen sg fem Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.
- Acts 10:11 γῆς n gen sg fem He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,
- Acts 10:12 γῆς n gen sg fem in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.
- Acts 11:6 γῆς n gen sg fem When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.
- Acts 13:17 γῇ n dat sg fem The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.
- Acts 13:19 γῇ γῆν n dat sg fem n acc sg fem When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred fifty years.
- Acts 13:47 γῆς n gen sg fem For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, 'I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, That you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.'"
- Acts 14:15 γῆν n acc sg fem "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;
- Acts 17:24 γῆς n gen sg fem The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,
- Acts 17:26 γῆς n gen sg fem He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
- Acts 22:22 γῆς n gen sg fem They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!"
- Acts 26:14 γῆν n acc sg fem When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'
- Acts 27:39 γῆν n acc sg fem When it was day, they didn't recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.
- Acts 27:43 γῆν n acc sg fem But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;
- Acts 27:44 γῆν n acc sg fem and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So it happened that they all escaped safely to the land.
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
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.
- #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
- Revelation 67 verses 30%
- Matthew 38 verses 17%
- Acts 30 verses 14%
By section of the New Testament
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- arable land
- the ground, the earth as a standing place
- the main land as opposed to the sea or water
- the earth as opposed to the heavens
- the inhabited earth, the abode of men and animals
- a country, land enclosed within fixed boundaries, a tract of land, territory, region
Word origin
Origin: contracted from a root word
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
- Genesis 1:1 γῆ
- Exodus 1:7 γῆ
- Leviticus 4:27 γῆ
- Numbers 1:1 γῆ
- Deuteronomy 1:5 γῆ
- Joshua 1:2 γῆ
- Judges 1:2 γῆ
- Ruth 1:1 γῆ
- 1 Samuel 1:21 γῆ
- 2 Samuel 1:2 γῆ
- 1 Kings 1:23 γῆ
- 2 Kings 2:15 γῆ
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.
- Genesis 1:1 γῆ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Genesis 1:2 γῆ Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
- Genesis 1:10 γῆ God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:11 γῆ God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:12 γῆ The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:14 γῆ God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
- Genesis 1:15 γῆ and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:17 γῆ God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,
- Genesis 1:20 γῆ God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
- Genesis 1:22 γῆ God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
- Genesis 1:24 γῆ God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:25 γῆ God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:26 γῆ God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
- Genesis 1:28 γῆ God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
- Genesis 1:29 γῆ God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
- Genesis 1:30 γῆ To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food." And it was so.
- Genesis 2:1 γῆ The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
- Genesis 2:4 γῆ This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and the heavens.
- Genesis 2:5 γῆ No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
- Genesis 2:6 γῆ but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
- Genesis 2:7 γῆ Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Genesis 2:9 γῆ Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 2:11 γῆ The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- Genesis 2:12 γῆ and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.
- Genesis 2:13 γῆ The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.
- Genesis 2:19 γῆ Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
- Genesis 3:1 γῆ Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
- Genesis 3:14 γῆ Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:17 γῆ To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:19 γῆ By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
- Genesis 3:23 γῆ Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
- Genesis 4:2 γῆ Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
- Genesis 4:3 γῆ As time passed, it happened that Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.
- Genesis 4:10 γῆ Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
- Genesis 4:11 γῆ Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
- Genesis 4:12 γῆ From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
- Genesis 4:14 γῆ Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."
- Genesis 4:16 γῆ Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
- Genesis 5:29 γῆ and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."
- Genesis 6:1 γῆ It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
- Genesis 6:4 γῆ The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
- Genesis 6:5 γῆ Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Genesis 6:6 γῆ Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
- Genesis 6:7 γῆ Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
- Genesis 6:11 γῆ The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- Genesis 6:12 γῆ God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
- Genesis 6:13 γῆ God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Genesis 6:17 γῆ I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
- Genesis 6:20 γῆ Of the birds after their kind, of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
- Genesis 7:3 γῆ Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
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.
