אֶ֫רֶץ
land
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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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H776 appears in the Book of Numbers — 104 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 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.
Numbers
- Numbers 1:1 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Numbers 3:13 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am Yahweh."
- Numbers 8:17 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.
- Numbers 9:1 מֵ/אֶ֧רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Numbers 9:14 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.'"
- Numbers 10:9 בְּ/אַרְצְ/כֶ֗ם prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2mp When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
- Numbers 10:30 אַרְצִ֛/י n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs He said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.
- Numbers 11:31 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs There went forth a wind from Yahweh, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.
- Numbers 13:2 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs Send you men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, everyone a prince among them.
- Numbers 13:16 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
- Numbers 13:17 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country:
- Numbers 13:18 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
- Numbers 13:19 הָ/אָ֗רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;
- Numbers 13:20 הָ֠/אָרֶץ הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.
- Numbers 13:21 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
- Numbers 13:25 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
- Numbers 13:26 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs They went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and shown them the fruit of the land.
- Numbers 13:27 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
- Numbers 13:28 בָּ/אָ֑רֶץ prep det + n c bs However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, [and] very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
- Numbers 13:29 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan.
- Numbers 13:32 הָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ הָ/אָ֡רֶץ אֶ֣רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs n c bs They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up the inhabitants of it; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
- Numbers 14:2 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
- Numbers 14:3 הָ/אָ֤רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?
- Numbers 14:6 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:
- Numbers 14:7 הָ/אָ֗רֶץ הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.
- Numbers 14:8 הָ/אָ֣רֶץ אֶ֕רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs n c bs If Yahweh delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
- Numbers 14:9 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us: don't fear them.
- Numbers 14:14 הָ/אָ֣רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
- Numbers 14:16 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.
- Numbers 14:21 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Yahweh;
- Numbers 14:23 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:
- Numbers 14:24 הָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.
- Numbers 14:30 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Numbers 14:31 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
- Numbers 14:34 הָ/אָרֶץ֮ ptcl def.art + n c bs After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my alienation.
- Numbers 14:36 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,
- Numbers 14:37 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
- Numbers 14:38 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
- Numbers 15:2 אֶ֨רֶץ֙ n c bs cs Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you are come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,
- Numbers 15:18 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you come into the land where I bring you,
- Numbers 15:19 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a heave-offering to Yahweh.
- Numbers 15:41 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Yahweh your God.
- Numbers 16:13 מֵ/אֶ֨רֶץ prep + n c bs is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must needs make yourself also a prince over us?
- Numbers 16:14 אֶרֶץ֩ n c bs Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? we won't come up.
- Numbers 16:32 הָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.
- Numbers 16:33 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
- Numbers 16:34 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs All Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
- Numbers 18:13 בְּ/אַרְצָ֛/ם prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
- Numbers 18:20 בְּ/אַרְצָ/ם֙ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp Yahweh said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them: I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
- Numbers 20:12 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, Because you didn't believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.
- Numbers 20:17 בְ/אַרְצֶ֗/ךָ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.
- Numbers 20:23 אֶֽרֶץ n c bs cs Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
- Numbers 20:24 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
- Numbers 21:4 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
- Numbers 21:22 בְ/אַרְצֶ֗/ךָ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border.
- Numbers 21:24 אַרְצ֜/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
- Numbers 21:26 אַרְצ֛/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.
- Numbers 21:31 בְּ/אֶ֖רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
- Numbers 21:34 אַרְצ֑/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Yahweh said to Moses, Don't fear him: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.
- Numbers 21:35 אַרְצֽ/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him remaining: and they possessed his land.
- Numbers 22:5 אֶ֥רֶץ הָ/אָ֔רֶץ n c bs cs ptcl def.art + n c bs He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they abide over against me.
- Numbers 22:6 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.
- Numbers 22:11 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.
- Numbers 22:13 אַרְצְ/כֶ֑ם n c bs cs + sfx pers 2mp Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Get you into your land; for Yahweh refuses to give me leave to go with you.
- Numbers 26:4 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs [Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old and upward; as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 26:10 הָ/אָ֜רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
- Numbers 26:19 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
- Numbers 26:53 הָ/אָ֛רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
- Numbers 26:55 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
- Numbers 27:12 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Yahweh said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.
- Numbers 32:1 אֶ֤רֶץ אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs n c bs cs Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for cattle;
- Numbers 32:4 הָ/אָ֗רֶץ אֶ֥רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs n c bs cs the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle.
- Numbers 32:5 הָ/אָ֧רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs They said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the Jordan.
- Numbers 32:7 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Why discourage you the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?
- Numbers 32:8 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
- Numbers 32:9 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.
- Numbers 32:17 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
- Numbers 32:22 הָ/אָ֜רֶץ הָ/אָ֨רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before Yahweh.
- Numbers 32:29 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ אֶ֥רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs n c bs cs Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
- Numbers 32:30 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
- Numbers 32:32 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance [shall remain] with us beyond the Jordan.
- Numbers 32:33 הָ/אָ֗רֶץ הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it with [their] borders, even the cities of the land round about.
- Numbers 33:1 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- Numbers 33:37 אֶ֥רֶץ n c bs cs They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
- Numbers 33:38 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
- Numbers 33:40 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 33:51 אֶ֥רֶץ n c bs cs Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
- Numbers 33:52 הָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:
- Numbers 33:53 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs and you shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for to you have I given the land to possess it.
- Numbers 33:54 הָ/אָ֨רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers shall you inherit.
- Numbers 33:55 הָ/אָרֶץ֮ הָ/אָ֕רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those who you let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land in which you dwell.
- Numbers 34:2 הָ/אָ֣רֶץ הָ/אָ֗רֶץ אֶ֥רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs n c bs cs Command the children of Israel, and tell them, When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to the borders of it),
- Numbers 34:12 הָ/אָ֛רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders of it round about.
- Numbers 34:13 הָ/אָ֗רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;
- Numbers 34:17 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Numbers 34:18 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.
- Numbers 34:29 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
- Numbers 35:10 אַ֥רְצָ/ה n c bs cs + sfx dem Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
- Numbers 35:14 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities shall you give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.
- Numbers 35:28 אֶ֖רֶץ n c bs cs because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.
- Numbers 35:32 בָּ/אָ֔רֶץ prep det + n c bs You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
- Numbers 35:33 הָ/אָ֗רֶץ הָ/אָ֑רֶץ וְ/לָ/אָ֣רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs conj + prep det + n c bs So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.
- Numbers 35:34 הָ/אָ֗רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 36:2 הָ/אָ֧רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs and they said, Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
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At its core, ארץ (ʼerets) means “land.” Carrying more than one sense, it rewards its full sense range. Spanning 2,190 verses in 39 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 1:1. From the same root come ארע and ארצא. See the sense tree, 2,190-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
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About this word
Strong's H776 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 →
- 2,190
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2,190 distinct verses.
- 39 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 39 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #17
- by frequency
- Top 25 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 17 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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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 2,190 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1,038 verses · 47%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 705 verses · 32%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 447 verses · 20%
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: Land 1,210×, Earth 543×, Ground 82×
- American Standard Version: Land 1,137×, Earth 505×, Ground 73×
- Berean Standard Bible: Land 1,415×, Earth 544×, Ground 117×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Land 994×, Earth 596×, Land of 491×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H776 across 2,504 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 180 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 H776 across 2,502 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 304 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 H776 across 2,375 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 82 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 108 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H776 across 2,463 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 60 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
18 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 18 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1.
- a. earth, whole earth (opp. to a part) Gn 18:18, 25; 22:18 (= הָאֲדָמָה 12:3) Je 25:26, 29, 30; 26:6 Is 37:16, 20 = 2 K 19:15, 19 Zc 4:10, 14 +. e.g. Genesis 18:18
- b. earth, opp. to heaven, sky Gn 1:2 Ex 20:4 Dt 5:8; 30:19 Ju 5:4 La 2:1 Is 37:16 = 2 K 19:15 ψ 146:6 1 Ch 21:16; 29:11 2 Ch 2:11 +; as permanent Ec 1:4; built on foundations, or pillars 1 S 2:8 ψ 104:5 Jb 38:4 Is 48:13; 51:13, 16 cf. also Is 24:18 ψ 82:5; firm, so that its shaking is something terrible, & token of terrible power 1 S 14:5 2 S 22:8 = ψ 18:8 Jb 9:6 cf. ψ 46:3 & v 7; so also Am 8:8 Is 2:19, 21; 24:18, 19, 20 ψ 60:4; 77:19; 99:1; 114:7; as hung on nothing Jb 26:7; with waters under it Ex 20:4 = Dt 5:8 cf. Gn 7:11; personified, especially as addressed, called to witness, etc. Dt 32:1 Je 6:19; 22:29 Is 1:2 Mi 1:2 Jb 16:18. e.g. Genesis 1:2
- c. earth = inhabitants of earth Gn 6:11; 11:1 1 K 2:2; 10:24 ψ 33:8; 66:4 + cf. תֵּבֵל א׳ Pr 8:31 Jb 37:12. e.g. Genesis 6:11
- 2. land =
- a. country, territory, א׳ שִׁנְעָר Gn 10:10, א׳ מִצְרַיִם 21:21; cf. also 10:11; 11:28, 31; 13:10; 47:6, 27; 50:8 Is 7:18; 23:1, 13; 27:13 ψ 78:12 Je 25:20 1 Ch 1:43; personif. Is 62:4 Ec 10:16, 17. e.g. Genesis 10:10
- b. district, region Gn 19:28; 22:2 Jos 11:3 ψ 42:7. e.g. Genesis 19:28
- c. tribal territory Dt 34:2 Ju 21:21 1 S 9:4, 16; 13:7 1 K 15:20 Is 8:23; and still smaller territories 1 S 9:4, 5. e.g. Deuteronomy 34:2
- d. piece of ground Gn 23:15. e.g. Genesis 23:15
- e. specif. land of Canaan, or Israel Gn 11:31; 12:1, 5, 6, 7; 31:3 Lv 14:34 Dt 17:14; 18:9 2 K 5:2, 4 +; especially obj. of יָרַשׁ possess Dt 3:20 + often Dt ψ al.; so after נָחַל Jos 19:49 +; נָתַן Dt 1:21 +. f. = inhabitants of land Lv 19:29 Ez 14:13 + cf. Dt 24:4 Zc 12:12 etc. g. used even of Sheʾôl Jb 10:21, 22 (cf. Assyrian irṣit la târat, land without return, in Descent of Ishtar, v. Jr 10.65); v. also ψ 139:15 Is 44:23. e.g. Genesis 11:31
- 3.
- a. ground, surface of ground = אֲדָמָה q.v. Gn 1:26, 30; 18:2; 33:3; 38:9 Ex 4:3; 16:14 Ru 2:10 1 S 5:4 + very often in S. e.g. Genesis 1:26
- b. soil, as productive = אֲדָמָה Gn 1:11, 12 Lv 19:9; 25:19; 26:4 cf. Nu 14:7, 8 Is 36:17 = 2 K 18:32 ψ 72:6, 16; 107:34, 35 Ezr 9:12 Ne 9:35. e.g. Genesis 1:11
- 4. אֶרֶץ in phrases:
- a. people of the land עַם־הָא׳ of non-Israelites Gn 23:7, 12, 13 (P) Nu 14:9 (JE); as well as Isr. Lv 20:4 (H) 2 K 15:5; 16:15; 21:24(×2); especially common people, opp. officials, princes Lv 4:27 (P) Ez 7:27 2 K 11:18, 19. e.g. Genesis 23:7
- b. in measurements of distance, כִּבְרַת הָא׳ the space or distance of country (v. כּברה) Gn 35:16, so כִּבְרַת א׳ some distance Gn 48:7 2 K 5:19. e.g. Genesis 35:16
- c. אֶרֶץ הַמִּישׁוֹר the country of the plain, level or plain country Dt 4:33 Je 48:21; א׳ מִישׁוֹר fig. ψ 143:10 (but read אֹרַח 𝔖 Bi Gr Che, cf. ψ 27:11). e.g. Deuteronomy 4:33
- d. א׳חַיִּים land of the living ψ 27:13; א׳ הַחַיִּים ψ 142:6 +. e.g. Psalms 27:13
- e. קְצֵה הָא׳ end(s) of the earth Is 42:10; 43:6 (‖ רָחוֹק) ψ 135:7 Pr 17:24, so אַפְסֵי א׳ Pr 30:4 +; קְצוֹת הָא׳ Is 40:28; 41:5, 9. e.g. Isaiah 42:10
- 5. pl. אֲרָצוֹת is almost wholly late, Je 16:15 + 6 times Je; 23 times Ez; Is 36:20; 37:11 = 2 K 18:35; 19:11 (Is 37:18 read הַגּוֹיִם v. Che Di & cf. 2 K 19:17); 22 times Chr; Dn 9:7; 11:40, 42; ψ 105:44; 106:27; 107:3; 116:9; besides these only P Gn 10:5, 20, 31 Lv 26:36, 39, except Gn 26:3, 4 (JR) 41:54 (JE); it denotes lands, countries, often in contrast to Canaan, lands of the nations, etc., v. especially abs. Ez 20:32; 22:4; = the various petty divisions of Canaan afterward united under Israel’s control Gn 26:3, 4, cf. 1 Ch 13:2 אַרְצוֹת יִשְׂרָאֵל, 2 Ch 11:23 אַרְצוֹת יְהוּדָה. e.g. Jeremiah 16:15
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. Gn 10:11 & (seld.) m. Ez 21:24 earth, land (Ph. MI ארץ, Assyrian irṣitu COTGloss, Arabic أَرْضٌ, Sab. ארץֿ e.g. Os 9 DHMZMG 1875, 594, 614; Sem. Sprachf. 12, cf. PräBAS i. 374 n., Aramaic אֲרַע, ܐܰܪܥܳܐ )—א׳ abs. Gn 1:24 +; cstr. 2:11 +; אָ֑רֶץ 1:10 +; c. art. always הָאָ֫רֶץ 1:11 +; c. ה—ָloc. אַ֫רְצָה 11:31 +, (poet. = אָרֶץ Jb 34:13; cf. 1 S 25:23 1 K 1:31); sf. אַרְצִי 20:15 + אַרְצְךָ (אַרְצֶ֑ךָ) 12:1 +, etc.; pl. אֲרָצוֹת Je 28:8 + 65 times; cstr. אַרְצוֹת Ez 39:27 + 6 times; sf. אַרְצֹתָם Gn 10:5 + 2 times;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
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.
אֶרֶץ
- רצץ; Ch. a. oth. dial. ארע fr. רעע to press together, stamp—from the rugged appearance of the surface after the subsidence of the waters) earth, dry land; country, land, field (opp. to town). Ex. R. s. 13 … threw dust upon the waters ונעשה א׳ and earth (crust) was formed.—א׳ ישראל (abbr. א"י) Palestine, opp. חוצה לָאָ׳, or מדינת הים foreign countries, or distant countries. Gitt. I, 2. Ib. 6ᵃ; a. fr.—הָאָרֶץ Palestine, Ḥull. 16ᵇ משנכנסו לא׳ since entering Palestine (under Joshua); a. fr.—עם הָאָ׳ (abbr. ע"ה) country people, hence illiterate, coarse, unrefined (often applied to an individual); pl. עַמֵּי הא׳, opp. תלמיד חכם. Sabb. 63ᵃ. Ḥull. 92ᵃ; a. v. fr.—Esp. ע"ה those not observing certain religious customs regarding tithes, levitical cleanness &c., opp. חָבֵר q. v. Dem. I, 2; a. fr.—Pl. אֲרָצוֹת. Shebi. IX, 2 שלש א׳ וכ׳ Palestine is divided into three countries with reference to the laws of the Sabbath year. Keth. 111ᵃ; a. e., v. עִיסָה; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 297 distinct written forms H776 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.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 237 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H776, 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
Proper names from this root
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Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2,063 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2,190 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 1:1
- Exodus 1:7
- Leviticus 4:27
- Numbers 1:1
- Deuteronomy 1:5
- Joshua 1:2
- Judges 1:2
- Ruth 1:1
- 1 Samuel 2:8
- 2 Samuel 1:2
- 1 Kings 1:23
- 2 Kings 2:15
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
