אֶ֫רֶץ
land
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H776
Strong's Hebrew
ʼerets
Transliteration
/eh'-rets/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
2,505
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
BDB Definition
land, earth
- earth
- whole earth (as opposed to a part)
- earth (as opposed to heaven)
- earth (inhabitants)
- land
- country, territory
- district, region
- tribal territory
- piece of ground
- land of Canaan, Israel
- inhabitants of land
- Sheol, land without return, (under) world
- city (-state)
- ground, surface of the earth
- ground
- soil
- (in phrases)
- people of the land
- space or distance of country (in measurements of distance)
- level or plain country
- land of the living
- end(s) of the earth
- (almost wholly late in usage)
- lands, countries
- often in contrast to Canaan
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.
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).
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Exodus 49 verses
- Exodus 23:31 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
- Exodus 31:17 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"
- Exodus 32:13 הָ/אָ֨רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
- Exodus 33:1 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ הָ/אָ֗רֶץ prep + n c bs cs ptcl def.art + n c bs Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.'
- Exodus 33:3 אֶ֛רֶץ n c bs to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."
- Exodus 34:8 אַ֖רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
- Exodus 34:10 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.
- Exodus 34:12 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:
- Exodus 34:15 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;
Leviticus 39 verses
- Leviticus 4:27 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs "'If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and is guilty;
- Leviticus 11:2 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
- Leviticus 11:21 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to hop on the earth.
- Leviticus 11:29 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs "'These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,
- Leviticus 11:41 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs "'Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.
- Leviticus 11:42 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
- Leviticus 11:44 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
- Leviticus 11:46 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs "'This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,
- Leviticus 16:22 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.
- Leviticus 18:25 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomitted out her inhabitants.
- Leviticus 18:27 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);
- Leviticus 18:28 הָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
- Leviticus 19:23 הָ/אָ֗רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs "'When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years shall they be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.
- Leviticus 19:29 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.
- Leviticus 20:2 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs "Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, 'Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
- Leviticus 20:4 הָ/אָ֜רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and don't put him to death;
- Leviticus 20:22 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs "'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out.
- Leviticus 20:24 אֶ֛רֶץ n c bs But I have said to you, "You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.
- Leviticus 23:10 הָ/אָ֗רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its the harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest:
- Leviticus 23:39 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs "'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
- Leviticus 25:2 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 25:4 לָ/אָ֔רֶץ prep det + n c bs but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
- Leviticus 25:5 לָ/אָֽרֶץ prep det + n c bs What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
- Leviticus 25:6 הָ/אָ֤רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.
- Leviticus 25:10 בָּ/אָ֖רֶץ prep det + n c bs You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
- Leviticus 25:18 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs "'Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
- Leviticus 25:19 הָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
- Leviticus 25:23 וְ/הָ/אָ֗רֶץ הָ/אָ֑רֶץ conj + ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs "'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
- Leviticus 25:24 אֶ֣רֶץ לָ/אָֽרֶץ n c bs cs prep det + n c bs In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
- Leviticus 25:31 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
- Leviticus 26:4 הָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- Leviticus 26:6 בָּ/אָ֔רֶץ הָ/אָ֔רֶץ בְּ/אַרְצְ/כֶֽם prep det + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2mp "'I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid; and I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
- Leviticus 26:20 אַרְצְ/כֶם֙ הָ/אָ֔רֶץ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2mp ptcl def.art + n c bs and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
- Leviticus 26:32 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.
- Leviticus 26:34 הָ/אָ֜רֶץ בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs prep + n c bs cs ptcl def.art + n c bs Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
- Leviticus 26:42 וְ/הָ/אָ֥רֶץ conj + ptcl def.art + n c bs then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.
- Leviticus 26:43 וְ/הָ/אָרֶץ֩ conj + ptcl def.art + n c bs The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
- Leviticus 27:24 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.
- Leviticus 27:30 הָ/אָ֜רֶץ הָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs "'All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh's. It is holy to Yahweh.
Numbers 66 verses
- 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 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 13:16 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 13:18 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 13:32 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 14:3 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 15:18 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 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 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 20:24 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 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 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 26:53 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 32:4 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 32:33 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 33:52 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 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.
Deuteronomy 108 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:8 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.
- Deuteronomy 1:21 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you: go up, take possession, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you; don't be afraid, neither be dismayed.
- Deuteronomy 1:22 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs You came near to me everyone of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.
- Deuteronomy 1:25 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.
- Deuteronomy 1:35 הָ/אָ֣רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,
- Deuteronomy 1:36 הָ/אָ֛רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he has trodden on, and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 2:29 הָ/אָ֕רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.
- Deuteronomy 3:8 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon;
- Deuteronomy 3:12 הָ/אָ֧רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities of it, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
- Deuteronomy 3:18 הָ/אָ֤רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs I commanded you at that time, saying, Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.
- Deuteronomy 3:20 הָ/אָ֕רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs until Yahweh give rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan: then shall you return every man to his possession, which I have given you.
- Deuteronomy 3:24 וּ/בָ/אָ֔רֶץ conj + prep det + n c bs Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your mighty acts?
- Deuteronomy 3:25 הָ/אָ֣רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
- Deuteronomy 3:28 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.
- Deuteronomy 4:1 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
- Deuteronomy 4:5 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:14 בָּ/אָ֕רֶץ prep det + n c bs Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:17 בָּ/אָ֑רֶץ prep det + n c bs the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
- Deuteronomy 4:18 לָ/אָֽרֶץ prep det + n c bs the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
- Deuteronomy 4:21 הָ/אָ֣רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance:
- Deuteronomy 4:22 בָּ/אָ֣רֶץ הָ/אָ֥רֶץ prep det + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.
- Deuteronomy 4:25 בָּ/אָ֑רֶץ prep det + n c bs When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to anger;
- Deuteronomy 4:26 הָ/אָ֗רֶץ הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 4:32 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been [any such thing] as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
- Deuteronomy 4:36 הָ/אָ֗רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
- Deuteronomy 4:39 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that Yahweh he is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is none else.
- Deuteronomy 5:8 בָּ/אָ֖רֶץ לָ/אָֽרֶץ prep det + n c bs prep det + n c bs "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, [nor] any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
- Deuteronomy 5:31 בָ/אָ֔רֶץ prep det + n c bs But as for you, stand you here by me, and I will speak to you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 5:33 בָּ/אָ֖רֶץ prep det + n c bs You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
- Deuteronomy 6:1 בָּ/אָ֔רֶץ prep det + n c bs Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
- Deuteronomy 6:3 אֶ֛רֶץ n c bs Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Deuteronomy 6:10 הָ/אָ֜רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs It shall be, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't build,
- Deuteronomy 6:18 הָ/אָ֣רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Yahweh; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
- Deuteronomy 6:23 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.
- Deuteronomy 7:1 הָ/אָ֕רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
- Deuteronomy 8:1 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs All the commandment which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
- Deuteronomy 8:7 אֶ֣רֶץ אֶ֚רֶץ n c bs n c bs cs For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;
- Deuteronomy 8:9 אֶ֗רֶץ אֶ֚רֶץ n c bs n c bs a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
- Deuteronomy 8:10 הָ/אָ֥רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.
- Deuteronomy 9:4 הָ/אָ֣רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Don't speak in your heart, after that Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh does drive them out from before you.
- Deuteronomy 9:6 הָ/אָ֧רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn't give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
- Deuteronomy 9:23 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn't believe him, nor listen to his voice.
- Deuteronomy 9:28 הָ/אָרֶץ֮ הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs lest the land whence you brought us out say, Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.
- Deuteronomy 10:11 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Yahweh said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them.
- Deuteronomy 10:14 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.
- Deuteronomy 11:6 הָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:
- Deuteronomy 11:8 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Therefore shall you keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it;
- Deuteronomy 11:9 אֶ֛רֶץ n c bs and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Deuteronomy 11:10 הָ/אָ֗רֶץ כְ/אֶ֤רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs prep + n c bs cs For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, from whence you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
- Deuteronomy 11:11 וְ/הָ/אָ֗רֶץ אֶ֥רֶץ conj + ptcl def.art + n c bs n c bs cs but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinks water of the rain of the sky,
- Deuteronomy 11:12 אֶ֕רֶץ n c bs a land which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
- Deuteronomy 11:17 הָ/אָ֣רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
- Deuteronomy 11:21 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
- Deuteronomy 11:25 הָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs There shall no man be able to stand before you: Yahweh your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you.
- Deuteronomy 11:29 הָ/אָ֕רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
- Deuteronomy 11:31 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.
- Deuteronomy 12:1 בָּ/אָ֕רֶץ prep det + n c bs These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
- Deuteronomy 12:10 בָּ/אָ֔רֶץ prep det + n c bs But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety;
- Deuteronomy 12:16 הָ/אָ֥רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
- Deuteronomy 12:24 הָ/אָ֥רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
- Deuteronomy 13:7 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs of the gods of the peoples who are round about you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;
- Deuteronomy 15:4 בָּ/אָ֕רֶץ prep det + n c bs However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)
- Deuteronomy 15:11 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ בְּ/אַרְצֶֽ/ךָ ptcl def.art + n c bs prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
- Deuteronomy 15:23 הָ/אָ֥רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.
- Deuteronomy 16:20 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs That which is altogether just shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 17:14 הָ/אָ֗רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me;
- Deuteronomy 18:9 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
- Deuteronomy 19:8 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs If Yahweh your God enlarge your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and give you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
- Deuteronomy 19:14 בָּ/אָ֕רֶץ prep det + n c bs You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 22:6 הָ/אָ֗רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young:
- Deuteronomy 23:20 הָ/אָ֕רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 24:4 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 25:19 בָּ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ prep det + n c bs Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.
- Deuteronomy 26:1 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs It shall be, when you are come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein,
- Deuteronomy 26:3 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, I profess this day to Yahweh your God, that I am come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.
- Deuteronomy 26:9 הָ/אָ֣רֶץ אֶ֛רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs n c bs and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Deuteronomy 26:15 אֶ֛רֶץ n c bs Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Deuteronomy 27:2 הָ/אָ֕רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:
- Deuteronomy 27:3 הָ/אָ֜רֶץ אֶ֣רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs n c bs and you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you are passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
- Deuteronomy 28:1 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, who Yahweh your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth:
- Deuteronomy 28:8 בָּ/אָ֕רֶץ prep det + n c bs Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 28:10 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you.
- Deuteronomy 28:23 וְ/הָ/אָ֥רֶץ conj + ptcl def.art + n c bs Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.
- Deuteronomy 28:25 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 28:26 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.
- Deuteronomy 28:49 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;
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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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[idiom] common
Modern gloss
land
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 BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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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).
View all 2,190 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 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
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
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.
