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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2 Samuel 6 verses
- 2 Samuel 24:6 אֶ֥רֶץ n c bs cs then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and round about to Sidon,
- 2 Samuel 24:13 בְּ/אַרְצֶ֡/ךָ בְּ/אַרְצֶ֔/ךָ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? now advise you, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
1 Kings 23 verses
- 1 Kings 4:10 אֶ֥רֶץ n c bs cs Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);
- 1 Kings 4:19 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ אֶ֜רֶץ בָּ/אָֽרֶץ prep + n c bs cs n c bs cs prep det + n c bs Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and [he was] the only officer who was in the land.
- 1 Kings 4:21 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
- 1 Kings 6:1 מֵ/אֶֽרֶץ prep + n c bs cs It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 8:9 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
- 1 Kings 8:21 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs There have I set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
- 1 Kings 8:36 אַרְצְ/ךָ֔ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
- 1 Kings 8:37 בָ/אָ֗רֶץ בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep det + n c bs prep + n c bs cs If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting [or] mildew, locust [or] caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be;
- 1 Kings 8:46 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
- 1 Kings 8:47 בָּ/אָ֖רֶץ בְּ/אֶ֤רֶץ prep det + n c bs prep + n c bs cs yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly;
- 1 Kings 8:48 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ אַרְצָ/ם֙ prep + n c bs cs n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:
- 1 Kings 9:9 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs and they shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has Yahweh brought all this evil on them.
- 1 Kings 9:11 בְּ/אֶ֖רֶץ prep + n c bs cs (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
- 1 Kings 9:13 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs He said, What cities are these which you have given me, my brother? He called them the land of Cabul to this day.
- 1 Kings 9:19 אֶ֥רֶץ n c bs cs and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
- 1 Kings 9:26 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
- 1 Kings 10:6 בְּ/אַרְצִ֑/י prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs She said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.
- 1 Kings 10:13 לְ/אַרְצָ֖/הּ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3fs King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.
- 1 Kings 11:21 אַרְצִֽ/י n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.
- 1 Kings 11:22 אַרְצֶ֑/ךָ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms Then Pharaoh said to him, But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country? He answered, Nothing: however only let me depart.
- 1 Kings 12:28 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
- 1 Kings 15:20 אֶ֥רֶץ n c bs cs Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
- 1 Kings 22:36 אַרְצֽ/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms There went a cry throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his country.
2 Kings 20 verses
- 2 Kings 5:2 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
- 2 Kings 5:4 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs One went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maiden who is of the land of Israel.
- 2 Kings 6:23 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs He prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
- 2 Kings 8:2 בְּ/אֶֽרֶץ prep + n c bs cs The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
- 2 Kings 8:3 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.
- 2 Kings 10:33 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
- 2 Kings 15:29 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel Beth Maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
- 2 Kings 17:7 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs It was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
- 2 Kings 17:36 מֵ/אֶ֧רֶץ prep + n c bs cs but Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, him shall you fear, and to him shall you bow yourselves, and to him shall you sacrifice:
- 2 Kings 18:32 אֶ֣רֶץ כְּ/אַרְצְ/כֶ֗ם אֶרֶץ֩ אֶ֧רֶץ אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2mp n c bs cs n c bs cs n c bs cs Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die: and don't listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, Yahweh will deliver us.
- 2 Kings 18:33 אַרְצ֑/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
- 2 Kings 18:35 הָֽ/אֲרָצ֔וֹת אַרְצָ֖/ם ptcl def.art + n c bp n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
- 2 Kings 19:7 לְ/אַרְצ֑/וֹ בְּ/אַרְצֽ/וֹ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear news, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
- 2 Kings 19:17 אַרְצָֽ/ם n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
- 2 Kings 19:37 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 23:24 בְּ/אֶ֤רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Moreover those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 23:33 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ הָ/אָ֔רֶץ prep + n c bs cs ptcl def.art + n c bs Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
- 2 Kings 24:7 מֵֽ/אַרְצ֑/וֹ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms The king of Egypt didn't come again out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
- 2 Kings 25:21 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
- 2 Kings 25:22 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor.
1 Chronicles 12 verses
- 1 Chronicles 1:43 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before there resigned any king over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
- 1 Chronicles 1:45 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
- 1 Chronicles 2:22 בְּ/אֶ֖רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 5:9 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs and eastward he lived even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 5:11 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah:
- 1 Chronicles 6:55 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs of it round about it;
- 1 Chronicles 10:9 בְ/אֶֽרֶץ prep + n c bs cs They stripped him, and took his head, and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people.
- 1 Chronicles 13:2 אַרְצ֣וֹת n c bp cs David said to all the assembly of Israel, If it seem good to you, and if it be of Yahweh our God, let us send abroad everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves to us;
- 1 Chronicles 16:18 אֶֽרֶץ n c bs cs Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;
- 1 Chronicles 19:2 אֶ֧רֶץ n c bs cs David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shown kindness to me. So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
- 1 Chronicles 20:1 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.
- 1 Chronicles 22:2 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs David commanded to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew worked stones to build the house of God.
2 Chronicles 23 verses
- 2 Chronicles 2:17 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.
- 2 Chronicles 6:5 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel:
- 2 Chronicles 6:27 אַרְצְ/ךָ֔ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
- 2 Chronicles 6:28 בָ/אָ֗רֶץ בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep det + n c bs prep + n c bs cs If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be;
- 2 Chronicles 6:37 בָּ/אָ֖רֶץ בְּ/אֶ֤רֶץ prep det + n c bs prep + n c bs cs yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;
- 2 Chronicles 6:38 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ אַרְצָ/ם֙ prep + n c bs cs n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name:
- 2 Chronicles 7:14 אַרְצָֽ/ם n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
- 2 Chronicles 7:22 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs They shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil on them.
- 2 Chronicles 8:6 אֶ֥רֶץ n c bs cs and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
- 2 Chronicles 8:17 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Then went Solomon to Ezion Geber, and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom.
- 2 Chronicles 9:5 בְּ/אַרְצִ֑/י prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs She said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.
- 2 Chronicles 9:11 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs The king made of the algum trees terraces for the house of Yahweh, and for the king's house, and harps and psalteries for the singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 9:12 לְ/אַרְצָ֖/הּ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3fs King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.
- 2 Chronicles 9:26 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
- 2 Chronicles 11:23 אַרְצ֧וֹת n c bp cs He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought [for them] many wives.
- 2 Chronicles 15:8 אֶ֤רֶץ n c bs cs When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 17:2 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
- 2 Chronicles 20:10 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them;
- 2 Chronicles 30:10 בְּ/אֶֽרֶץ prep + n c bs cs So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them, and mocked them.
- 2 Chronicles 30:25 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
- 2 Chronicles 32:13 הָ/אֲרָצ֑וֹת הָ/אֲרָצ֔וֹת אַרְצָ֖/ם ptcl def.art + n c bp ptcl def.art + n c bp n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp Don't you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand?
- 2 Chronicles 32:21 לְ/אַרְצ֗/וֹ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he was come into the house of his god, those who came forth from his own bowels killed him there with the sword.
- 2 Chronicles 34:7 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.
Ezra 1 verse
Nehemiah 6 verses
- Nehemiah 4:4 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Hear, our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;
- Nehemiah 5:14 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that is], twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.
- Nehemiah 9:8 אֶרֶץ֩ n c bs cs and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
- Nehemiah 9:10 אַרְצ֔/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms and shown signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and did get you a name, as it is this day.
- Nehemiah 9:22 אֶ֣רֶץ אֶ֨רֶץ֙ אֶ֖רֶץ n c bs cs n c bs cs n c bs cs Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you did allot after their portions: so they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
- Nehemiah 9:35 וּ/בְ/אֶ֨רֶץ conj + prep + n c bs cs For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and fat land which you gave before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
Job 5 verses
- Job 1:1 בְ/אֶֽרֶץ prep + n c bs cs There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
- Job 10:21 אֶ֖רֶץ n c bs cs Before I go where I shall not return from, To the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
- Job 10:22 אֶ֤רֶץ n c bs cs The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'"
- Job 28:13 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.
- Job 37:13 לְ/אַרְצ֑/וֹ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Whether it is for correction, or for his land, Or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.
Psalms 29 verses
- Psalms 10:16 מֵֽ/אַרְצֽ/וֹ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
- Psalms 27:13 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
- Psalms 42:6 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, The heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
- Psalms 52:5 מֵ/אֶ֖רֶץ prep + n c bs cs God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, And root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
- Psalms 63:1 בְּ/אֶֽרֶץ prep + n c bs cs God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you, My flesh longs for you, In a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
- Psalms 78:12 בְּ/אֶ֖רֶץ prep + n c bs cs He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
- Psalms 81:5 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.
- Psalms 81:10 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs I am Yahweh, your God, Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
- Psalms 85:1 אַרְצֶ֑/ךָ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
- Psalms 85:9 בְּ/אַרְצֵֽ/נוּ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cp Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, That glory may dwell in our land.
- Psalms 85:12 וְ֝/אַרְצֵ֗/נוּ conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cp Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.
- Psalms 88:12 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
- Psalms 105:11 אֶֽרֶץ n c bs cs Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;"
- Psalms 105:23 בְּ/אֶֽרֶץ prep + n c bs cs Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
- Psalms 105:27 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs They performed miracles among them, And wonders in the land of Ham.
- Psalms 105:30 אַרְצָ֣/ם n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp Their land swarmed with frogs, Even in the chambers of their kings.
- Psalms 105:32 בְּ/אַרְצָֽ/ם prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp He gave them hail for rain, With lightning in their land.
- Psalms 105:35 בְּ/אַרְצָ֑/ם prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp Ate up every plant in their land; And ate up the fruit of their ground.
- Psalms 105:36 בְּ/אַרְצָ֑/ם prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp He struck also all the firstborn in their land, The first fruits of all their manhood.
- Psalms 105:44 אַרְצ֣וֹת n c bp cs He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
- Psalms 106:22 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Wondrous works in the land of Ham, And awesome things by the Red Sea.
- Psalms 106:24 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn't believe his word,
- Psalms 107:34 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs And a fruitful land into a salt waste, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
- Psalms 107:35 וְ/אֶ֥רֶץ conj + n c bs cs He turns a desert into a pool of water, And a dry land into water springs.
- Psalms 116:9 בְּ֝/אַרְצ֗וֹת prep + n c bp cs I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.
- Psalms 135:12 אַרְצָ֣/ם n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp And gave their land for a heritage, A heritage to Israel, his people.
- Psalms 136:21 אַרְצָ֣/ם n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp And gave their land as an inheritance; For his loving kindness endures forever;
- Psalms 142:5 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my refuge, My portion in the land of the living."
- Psalms 143:10 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Teach me to do your will, For you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
Proverbs 3 verses
- Proverbs 8:31 אַרְצ֑/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.
- Proverbs 21:19 בְּ/אֶֽרֶץ prep + n c bs cs It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.
- Proverbs 25:25 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Like cold water to a thirsty soul, So is good news from a far country.
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Isaiah 47 verses
- Isaiah 1:7 אַרְצְ/כֶ֣ם n c bs cs + sfx pers 2mp Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, And it is desolate, As overthrown by strangers.
- Isaiah 2:7 אַרְצ/וֹ֙ אַרְצ/וֹ֙ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Their land is full of silver and gold, Neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, Neither is there any end of their chariots.
- Isaiah 2:8 אַרְצ֖/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made.
- Isaiah 7:18 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
- Isaiah 8:8 אַרְצְ/ךָ֖ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.
- Isaiah 9:1 אַ֤רְצָ/ה וְ/אַ֣רְצָ/ה n c bs cs + sfx dem conj + n c bs cs + sfx dem But there shall be no gloom to her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time has he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
- Isaiah 9:2 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light: those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them has the light shined.
- Isaiah 11:16 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs There shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Assyria; like as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
- Isaiah 13:5 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ הָ/אָֽרֶץ prep + n c bs cs ptcl def.art + n c bs They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
- Isaiah 13:14 אַרְצ֖/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms It shall happen, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathers, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.
- Isaiah 14:20 אַרְצְ/ךָ֥ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named forever.
- Isaiah 14:25 בְּ/אַרְצִ֔/י prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder.
- Isaiah 18:1 אֶ֖רֶץ n c bs cs Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
- Isaiah 18:2 אַרְצֽ/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, [saying], Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!
- Isaiah 18:7 אַרְצ֔/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms In that time shall a present be brought to Yahweh of Hosts [from] a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Hosts, Mount Zion.
- Isaiah 19:18 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction.
- Isaiah 19:19 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs In that day shall there be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border of it to Yahweh.
- Isaiah 19:20 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs It shall be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior, and a defender, and he will deliver them.
- Isaiah 21:14 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs To him who was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread.
- Isaiah 23:1 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
- Isaiah 23:10 אַרְצֵ֖/ךְ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2fs Pass through your land as the Nile, daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more.
- Isaiah 23:13 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the palaces of it; they made it a ruin.
- Isaiah 26:1 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
- Isaiah 26:10 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not see the majesty of Yahweh.
- Isaiah 27:13 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs prep + n c bs cs It shall happen in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 30:6 בְּ/אֶרֶץ֩ prep + n c bs cs The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit [them].
- Isaiah 33:17 אֶ֥רֶץ n c bs cs Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall see a land that reaches afar.
- Isaiah 34:6 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
- Isaiah 34:7 אַרְצָ/ם֙ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp The wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bulls with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
- Isaiah 34:9 אַרְצָ֔/הּ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3fs The streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and the dust of it into sulfur, and the land of it shall become burning pitch.
- Isaiah 36:17 אֶ֣רֶץ כְּ/אַרְצְ/כֶ֑ם אֶ֤רֶץ אֶ֥רֶץ n c bs prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2mp n c bs cs n c bs cs until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
- Isaiah 36:18 אַרְצ֔/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Yahweh will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
- Isaiah 36:20 הָֽ/אֲרָצוֹת֙ אַרְצָ֖/ם ptcl def.art + n c bp n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp Who are they among all the gods of these countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
- Isaiah 37:7 אַרְצ֑/וֹ בְּ/אַרְצֽ/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear news, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
- Isaiah 37:18 הָ/אֲרָצ֖וֹת אַרְצָֽ/ם ptcl def.art + n c bp n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land,
- Isaiah 37:38 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.
- Isaiah 38:11 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs I said, I shall not see Yah, Yah in the land of the living: I shall see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
- Isaiah 41:18 וְ/אֶ֥רֶץ conj + n c bs cs I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
- Isaiah 45:19 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
- Isaiah 46:11 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.
- Isaiah 49:12 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Behold, these shall come from far; and, behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
- Isaiah 49:19 וְ/אֶ֖רֶץ conj + n c bs cs For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now shall you be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.
- Isaiah 53:2 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
- Isaiah 53:8 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who [among them] considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the disobedience of my people to whom the stroke [was due]?
- Isaiah 60:18 בְּ/אַרְצֵ֔/ךְ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2fs Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
- Isaiah 61:7 בְּ/אַרְצָ/ם֙ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp Instead of your shame [you shall have] double; and instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be to them.
- Isaiah 62:4 וּ/לְ/אַרְצֵ/ךְ֙ וּ/לְ/אַרְצֵ֖/ךְ וְ/אַרְצֵ֖/ךְ conj + prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2fs conj + prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3fs conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2fs You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.
Jeremiah 101 verses
- Jeremiah 1:1 בְּ/אֶ֖רֶץ prep + n c bs cs The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
- Jeremiah 2:6 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ בְּ/אֶ֨רֶץ בְּ/אֶ֨רֶץ֙ בְּ/אֶ֗רֶץ prep + n c bs cs prep + n c bs cs prep + n c bs cs prep + n c bs Neither said they, Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?
- Jeremiah 2:7 אֶ֣רֶץ אַרְצִ֔/י n c bs cs n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
- Jeremiah 2:15 אַרְצ/וֹ֙ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms The young lions have roared on him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 2:31 אֶ֥רֶץ n c bs cs Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you?
- Jeremiah 3:18 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ הָ/אָ֕רֶץ prep + n c bs cs ptcl def.art + n c bs In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.
- Jeremiah 3:19 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs But I said, How I will put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, You shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.
- Jeremiah 4:7 אַרְצֵ/ךְ֙ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2fs A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 4:16 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, [that] watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
- Jeremiah 5:19 בְּ/אַרְצְ/כֶ֔ם בְּ/אֶ֖רֶץ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2mp prep + n c bs It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us? then shall you say to them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
- Jeremiah 6:20 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
- Jeremiah 6:22 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ אָֽרֶץ prep + n c bs cs n c bs Thus says Yahweh, Behold, a people comes from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
- Jeremiah 7:22 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
- Jeremiah 7:25 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
- Jeremiah 8:19 מֵ/אֶ֨רֶץ֙ prep + n c bs cs Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?
- Jeremiah 10:17 מֵ/אֶ֖רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Gather up your wares out of the land, you who abide in the siege.
- Jeremiah 10:22 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.
- Jeremiah 11:4 מֵ/אֶֽרֶץ prep + n c bs cs which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall you be my people, and I will be your God;
- Jeremiah 11:7 מֵ/אֶ֤רֶץ prep + n c bs cs For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
- Jeremiah 11:19 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
- Jeremiah 12:5 וּ/בְ/אֶ֤רֶץ conj + prep + n c bs cs If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
- Jeremiah 12:15 לְ/אַרְצֽ/וֹ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
- Jeremiah 16:14 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be said, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
- Jeremiah 16:15 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ הָֽ/אֲרָצ֔וֹת prep + n c bs cs ptcl def.art + n c bp but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them. I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
- Jeremiah 16:18 אַרְצִ֑/י n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
- Jeremiah 17:6 אֶ֥רֶץ n c bs cs For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
- Jeremiah 17:26 וּ/מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ conj + prep + n c bs cs They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and frankincense, and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving, to the house of Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 18:16 אַרְצָ֛/ם n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
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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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Strong's · 1890
[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).
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- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1,038 verses · 47%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 705 verses · 32%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 447 verses · 20%
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- 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
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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.
