אֲרַע
earth
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Determined
- A noun marked definite — in Aramaic, the emphatic state.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Particle, Definite Article 20 times (91%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 1 time (5%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Determined 1 time (5%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 22 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H772 appears — 17 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 1 verse
Jeremiah 1 verse
Daniel 15 verses
- Daniel 2:35 אַרְעָֽ/א n c fs det + ptcl def.art Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Daniel 2:39 ארע/א אֲרַע אַרְעָֽ/א n c fs cs + sfx dem n c fs det n c fs det + ptcl def.art After you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you; and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
- Daniel 4:1 אַרְעָ֖/א n c fs det + ptcl def.art Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.
- Daniel 4:10 אַרְעָ֖/א n c fs det + ptcl def.art Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and, behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and the height of it was great.
- Daniel 4:11 אַרְעָֽ/א n c fs det + ptcl def.art The tree grew, and was strong, and the height of it reached to the sky, and the sight of it to the end of all the earth.
- Daniel 4:15 בְּ/אַרְעָ֣/א אַרְעָֽ/א prep + n c fs det + ptcl def.art n c fs det + ptcl def.art Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth:
- Daniel 4:20 אַרְעָֽ/א n c fs det + ptcl def.art The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and the sight of it to all the earth;
- Daniel 4:22 אַרְעָֽ/א n c fs det + ptcl def.art it is you, O king, that are grown and become strong; for your greatness is grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.
- Daniel 4:23 בְּ/אַרְעָ֣/א prep + n c fs det + ptcl def.art Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, Hew down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of the roots of it in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him;
- Daniel 4:35 אַרְעָ/א֙ אַרְעָ֑/א n c fs det + ptcl def.art n c fs det + ptcl def.art All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or tell him, What do you?
- Daniel 6:25 אַרְעָ֖/א n c fs det + ptcl def.art Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.
- Daniel 6:27 וּ/בְ/אַרְעָ֑/א prep + n c fp det + ptcl def.art + ptcl def.art He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
- Daniel 7:4 אַרְעָ֗/א n c fs det + ptcl def.art The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I saw until the wings of it were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; and a man's heart was given to it.
- Daniel 7:17 אַרְעָֽ/א n c fs det + ptcl def.art These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who shall arise out of the earth.
- Daniel 7:23 בְ/אַרְעָ֔/א אַרְעָ֔/א prep + n c fs det + ptcl def.art n c fs det + ptcl def.art Thus he said, The fourth animal shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
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.
The Hebrew noun ארע centers on the idea of “earth.” The word gravitates to Daniel (88%), then Ezra and Jeremiah. It turns up in 17 verses across 3 books, an uncommon footprint. First canonically at Ezra 5:11, it enters the text early. It clusters with ארץ, ארעית and ארק under a shared root. Dig into 17-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H772 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 17
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 17 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,412
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,412 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 17 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 17 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 16 verses · 94%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 6%
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 19×
- American Standard Version: Earth 19×
- Berean Standard Bible: Earth 15×, Ground 3×, Land 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Earth 19×, The 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H772 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H772 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 H772 across 21 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H772 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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.
- earth, world, ground
Word origin
Derived from ארץ (ʼerets) (H776) — land.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אָרַע
- (√רע, v. רעע) to strike against. Nif. נֶאֱרַע to come in contact with (cmp. זווג), to happen, befall (gen. of evil occurrences). Ber. IV, 2 שלא תֵּאָרַע וכ׳ (Bab. ed. 28ᵇ שלא יֵאָרַע דבר וכ׳) that no (religious) offence may happen through me (by an erroneous decision &c.). Yoma I, 1 שׁמא יארע בו פסול lest something may occur to him to unfit him for services. Esth. R. to II, 7 שיארע על ישראל (read שיארע לישר׳) will happen to Israel; a. fr.
- to strike, befall; (neut. v.) to occur. Y. Kidd. I, 58ᵈ top ולא א׳ מעשה no accident (illegal act) occurred. Gen. R. s. 84 כל מה שאירע לזה וכ׳ whatever befell the one, befell also the other; a. fr.—M. Kat. II, 1 אֵירְעוֹ אבל (Ms. M. אירע בו) mourning in the family befell him; a. e.—Y. Shek. V, 48ᵈ bot. כך וכך אירע; Y. Dem. I, 22ᵃ אירעון … (read אירעוֹ) so and so it happened to him. Part. Pu. מְאוֹרָע q. v.
- to be added to, to join. Y. Sot. I, 17ᵃ אחת מִתְאַרְעָה לאחת וכ׳ one (sin) is added to the other, until the account is full; Num. R. s. 9.
אֲרַע I
- (in Targ. Y.; in O. usu. עֲרַע q. v.) same; to join, meet, find; to attack, visit. Targ. Y. Gen. XIX, 19 תִירְעִינַנִי may befall me Targ. Y. Deut. XXXII, 10 (h. text מצא). Targ. Y. Ex. V, 3 (h. פגע). Ib. IV, 2 (h. פגש; ed. Vien. ועַרַע read וַאֲרַע). Targ. Y. Lev. V, 7 לא תֶאֱרַע ידיה he will not be able, cannot afford (h. text תגיע וכ׳, cmp. תמצא ידו); a. fr. [Targ. Y. II, Ex. XV, 9 ואַרְעֵי יתהון (I ונָרַע, וגדע) read ואֶירַע and I shall meet them.]
- or Pa. אַרַע to be met; to meet. Targ. Y. I Num. XXIII, 15 אֶתְעָרַע (h. text אֶקָּרֶה). M. Kat. 18ᵃ, a. e. איתרע ביה מילתא an accident befell him (death in the family).—Lev. R. s. 37 אַרְעַת שעתא it so happened. Koh. R. to XI, 1 ארעת ענת׳ וכ׳ it happened to be the season when the Israelites travelled to Jerusalem. Y. Dem. I, 22ᵃ אירעון, v. preced. Targ. Esth. VIII, 8 תִתְּרַן = תתארען; Targ. Y. Gen. XLIV, 34 תברז (corr. acc.). [אתרע to be shaken, weakened, v. רעע.]
- = Pe. Targ. Ruth II, 3; a. e.—Targ. Ps. LXXXV, 11 אוֹרְעוּן (some ed. אָרְעִין Pe.) meet each other.
*אָרַע II
- (√רע, cmp. רוּעַ, Hif. הֵרִיעַ, cmp. קָרָא a. קָרָה) to proclaim a festival. Sifré Num. 147 אֵירְעוֹ במאכל וכ׳ proclaim it (as מקרא קדש) with special meal and dress; v. Mekh. Bo 9, beg.
- to be proclaimed. B. Bath. 113ᵇ with והיתה … משפט (Num. XXVII, 11) אוֹרְעָה כל וכ׳ the whole section has been proclaimed as of a judicial nature; (Ms. M. הודעה, v. יָדַע). e.g. Numbers 27:11
אֲרַע II
- (Targ. Y., O. usu. עֲרַע q. v.), Pa. אָרַע, אַרַע same. Targ. Y. Lev. XXIII, 2; a. fr. Targ. O. Num. X, 2 לעָרָעָה ed. Berl. (oth. ed. לאַרְעָא); (Targ. Y. לעָרָעָא, לעַרְעָא!). [Targ. Y. Lev. XXIII, 4 דִּי יִתְרְעוּן, corr. די תְאַרְעוּן. Ib. 21, a gloss חיין וקיימין הי בזמן ref. to the festive benediction שהחייני וקימנו וכ׳.]—Denom. מְאַרְעָא, מְעַרְעָא.
אַרַע
- land, v. אַרְעָא.—אַרַע nether-, beneath, v. אַרְעָאָה.
רְעַע
- , to shatter, break. Targ. Jud. IX, 53 ורָעַת (Levita ורְעִיעַת; some ed. ורעתת, corr. acc.). Targ. Y. II, Ex. XV, 6 רָעָא (some ed. רעע, corr. acc.). Targ. Job XX, 19 (ed. Wil. רָעַע Pa.); a. e.—Part. pass. רְעִיעַ, רְעִיעָא; f. רְעִיעָא, רְעִיעֲתָא. Targ. Is. XLII, 3. Targ. Koh. XII, 6; a. e.—Taan. 20ᵇ אשיתא ר׳ Ms. M. (ed. רעועה h.) a threatening wall. Ib. ביתא ר׳ a ruinous-looking house; a. fr.
- same. Targ. Job XX, 10. Ib. 19, v. supra; a. e.
- to do harm. Ib. XXIV, 21 מֵרַע (Ms. מְיָירַע; h. text רֹעֶה).
- 1. to be shaken, broken; be afraid. Targ. Y. Deut. XX, 3 (Var. תִּתְיָרְע׳).
- 2. to be shaken, impaired. Hor. 12ᵃ ומִיתְרַע מזליה and his luck may be shaken, v. רִיעַ II. B. Bath. 59ᵃ דתִיתְרַע וכ׳, v. אֲשִׁיתָא. Ḥull. 10ᵃ סכין אִיתְרְעָאִי וכ׳ the status of the knife has been impaired (the knife having been found notched after slaughtering), but the status of the slaughtered animal (the presumption of its ritual fitness) has not been shaken, v. רֵיעוּתָא.
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Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms H772 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַרְעָֽ/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 2:35 | 7 |
| אַרְעָ֖/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 4:1 | 3 |
| בְּ/אַרְעָ֣/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 4:15 | 2 |
| אֲרַע | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Determined | Daniel 2:39 | 1 |
| אַרְעָ/א֙ | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 4:35 | 1 |
| אַרְעָ֑/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 4:35 | 1 |
| אַרְעָ֔/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 7:23 | 1 |
| אַרְעָ֗/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 7:4 | 1 |
| ארע/א | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 2:39 | 1 |
| בְ/אַרְעָ֔/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 7:23 | 1 |
| וְ/אַרְעָ֗/א | Particle, Definite Article | Ezra 5:11 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/אַרְעָ֑/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 6:27 | 1 |
| מֵֽ/אַרְעָ֛/א | Particle, Definite Article | Jeremiah 10:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H772, 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.
Derives from
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 16 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 17 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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