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).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute 1,596 times (64%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct 833 times (33%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute 66 times (3%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct 10 times (0%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 2,505 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 5 of 11 — showing verses 801–1,000 of 2,190 distinct verses where H776 appears, across 39 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Judges 53 verses
- Judges 1:32 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.
- Judges 1:33 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Naphtali didn't drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth Anath became subject to forced labor.
- Judges 2:1 הָ/אָ֗רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you:
- Judges 2:2 הָ/אָ֣רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars. But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this?
- Judges 2:6 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.
- Judges 2:12 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger.
- Judges 3:11 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs The land had rest forty years. Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
- Judges 3:25 אַ֖רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem They waited until they were ashamed; and, behold, he didn't open the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened [them], and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
- Judges 3:30 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. The land had rest eighty years.
- Judges 4:21 בָּ/אָ֑רֶץ prep det + n c bs Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.
- Judges 5:4 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs Yahweh, when you went forth out of Seir, When you marched out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the sky also dropped, Yes, the clouds dropped water.
- Judges 5:31 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh: But let those who love him be as the sun when he goes forth in his might. The land had rest forty years.
- Judges 6:4 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.
- Judges 6:5 בָ/אָ֖רֶץ prep det + n c bs For they came up with their cattle and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.
- Judges 6:9 אַרְצָֽ/ם n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land;
- Judges 6:10 בְּ/אַרְצָ֑/ם prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp and I said to you, I am Yahweh your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But you have not listened to my voice.
- Judges 6:37 הָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.
- Judges 6:39 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Gideon said to God, Don't let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once: Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.
- Judges 6:40 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs God did so that night: for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
- Judges 8:28 הָ/אָ֛רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
- Judges 9:37 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Gaal spoke again and said, Behold, there come people down by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim.
- Judges 10:4 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
- Judges 10:8 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs They vexed and oppressed the children of Israel that year: eighteen years [oppressed they] all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
- Judges 11:3 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him.
- Judges 11:5 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob;
- Judges 11:12 בְּ/אַרְצִֽ/י prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have you to do with me, that you are come to me to fight against my land?
- Judges 11:13 אַרְצִ/י֙ n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably.
- Judges 11:15 אֶ֣רֶץ אֶ֖רֶץ n c bs cs n c bs cs and he said to him, Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn't take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon,
- Judges 11:17 בְ/אַרְצֶ֗/ךָ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Please let me pass through your land; but the king of Edom didn't listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab; but he would not: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
- Judges 11:18 אֶ֤רֶץ אֶ֣רֶץ לְ/אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs n c bs cs prep + n c bs cs Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn't come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.
- Judges 11:19 בְ/אַרְצְ/ךָ֖ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let us pass, we pray you, through your land to my place.
- Judges 11:21 אֶ֣רֶץ הָ/אָ֥רֶץ n c bs cs ptcl def.art + n c bs Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
- Judges 12:12 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
- Judges 12:15 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.
- Judges 13:20 אָֽרְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
- Judges 16:24 אַרְצֵ֔/נוּ n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cp When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, Our god has delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us.
- Judges 18:2 הָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, Go, search the land. They came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
- Judges 18:7 בָּ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ prep det + n c bs Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were therein, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put [them] to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with any man.
- Judges 18:9 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs They said, Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are you still? don't be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.
- Judges 18:10 וְ/הָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ בָּ/אָֽרֶץ conj + ptcl def.art + n c bs prep det + n c bs When you go, you shall come to a people secure, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.
- Judges 18:14 הָ/אָ֣רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do.
- Judges 18:17 הָ/אָרֶץ֒ ptcl def.art + n c bs The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
- Judges 18:30 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
- Judges 19:30 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs It was so, that all who saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day: consider it, take counsel, and speak.
- Judges 20:1 וְ/אֶ֖רֶץ conj + n c bs cs Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
- Judges 20:21 אָֽרְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day Twenty-two thousand men.
- Judges 20:25 אָ֑רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
- Judges 21:12 בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
- Judges 21:21 אֶ֥רֶץ n c bs cs and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come you out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Ruth 4 verses
- Ruth 1:1 בָּ/אָ֑רֶץ prep det + n c bs It happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
- Ruth 1:7 אֶ֥רֶץ n c bs cs She went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.
- Ruth 2:10 אָ֑רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, seeing I am a foreigner?
- Ruth 2:11 וְ/אֶ֨רֶץ֙ conj + n c bs cs Boaz answered her, It has fully been shown me, all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn't know before.
1 Samuel 45 verses
- 1 Samuel 2:8 אֶ֔רֶץ n c bs He raises up the poor out of the dust, He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, Inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's, He has set the world on them.
- 1 Samuel 2:10 אָ֑רֶץ n c bs Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces; Against them will he thunder in the sky: Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth; He will give strength to his king, Exalt the horn of his anointed.
- 1 Samuel 3:19 אָֽרְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx h Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.
- 1 Samuel 4:5 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs When the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
- 1 Samuel 5:3 אַ֔רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem When they of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh. They took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
- 1 Samuel 5:4 אַ֔רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem When they arose early on the next day morning, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands [lay] cut off on the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was left to him.
- 1 Samuel 6:5 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ אַרְצְ/כֶֽם ptcl def.art + n c bs n c bs cs + sfx pers 2mp Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
- 1 Samuel 9:4 בְּ/אֶֽרֶץ בְ/אֶֽרֶץ בְּ/אֶֽרֶץ prep + n c bs cs prep + n c bs cs prep + n c bs cs He passed through the hill-country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn't find them: then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they weren't there: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn't find them.
- 1 Samuel 9:5 בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father leave off caring for the donkeys, and be anxious for us.
- 1 Samuel 9:16 מֵ/אֶ֣רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel; and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked on my people, because their cry is come to me.
- 1 Samuel 12:6 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs cs Samuel said to the people, It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 13:3 הָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba: and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
- 1 Samuel 13:7 אֶ֥רֶץ n c bs cs Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
- 1 Samuel 13:17 אֶ֥רֶץ n c bs cs The spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual;
- 1 Samuel 13:19 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
- 1 Samuel 14:15 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled; and the earth quaked: so there was an exceeding great trembling.
- 1 Samuel 14:25 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.
- 1 Samuel 14:29 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
- 1 Samuel 14:32 אָ֑רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.
- 1 Samuel 14:45 אַ֔רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem The people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.
- 1 Samuel 17:46 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs This day will Yahweh deliver you into my hand; and I will strike you, and take your head from off you; and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
- 1 Samuel 17:49 אָֽרְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem David put his hand in his bag, and took there a stone, and slang it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.
- 1 Samuel 20:41 אַ֛רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of [a place] toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.
- 1 Samuel 21:11 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another about him in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'"
- 1 Samuel 22:5 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs The prophet Gad said to David, Don't stay in the stronghold; depart, and get you into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
- 1 Samuel 23:23 בָ/אָ֔רֶץ prep det + n c bs See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come you again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.
- 1 Samuel 23:27 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs But there came a messenger to Saul, saying, Haste you, and come; for the Philistines have made a raid on the land.
- 1 Samuel 24:8 אַ֖רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance.
- 1 Samuel 25:23 אָֽרֶץ n c bs When Abigail saw David, she hurried, and alighted from her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.
- 1 Samuel 25:41 אָ֑רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
- 1 Samuel 26:7 בָ/אָ֖רֶץ prep det + n c bs So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay round about him.
- 1 Samuel 26:8 וּ/בָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ conj + prep det + n c bs Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day: now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.
- 1 Samuel 26:20 אַ֔רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one does hunt a partridge in the mountains.
- 1 Samuel 27:1 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
- 1 Samuel 27:8 הָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ אֶ֥רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs n c bs cs David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those [nations] were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 27:9 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish.
- 1 Samuel 28:3 מֵ/הָ/אָֽרֶץ prep + ptcl def.art + n c bs Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had put away those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
- 1 Samuel 28:9 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs The woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: why then lay you a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
- 1 Samuel 28:13 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs The king said to her, Don't be afraid: for what do you see? The woman said to Saul, I see a god coming up out of the earth.
- 1 Samuel 28:14 אַ֖רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem He said to her, What form is he of? She said, An old man comes up; and he is covered with a robe. Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance.
- 1 Samuel 28:20 אַ֔רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
- 1 Samuel 28:23 מֵֽ/הָ/אָ֔רֶץ prep + ptcl def.art + n c bs But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat on the bed.
- 1 Samuel 29:11 אֶ֣רֶץ n c bs cs So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. The Philistines went up to Jezreel.
- 1 Samuel 30:16 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ וּ/מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs prep + n c bs cs conj + prep + n c bs cs When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
- 1 Samuel 31:9 בְ/אֶֽרֶץ prep + n c bs cs They cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the news to the house of their idols, and to the people.
2 Samuel 37 verses
- 2 Samuel 1:2 אַ֖רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem it happened on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
- 2 Samuel 2:22 אַ֔רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem Abner said again to Asahel, Turn you aside from following me: why should I strike you to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother?
- 2 Samuel 3:12 אָ֑רֶץ n c bs Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying [also], Make your league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with you, to bring about all Israel to you.
- 2 Samuel 4:11 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
- 2 Samuel 5:6 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, Except you take away the blind and the lame, you shall not come in here; thinking, David can't come in here.
- 2 Samuel 7:9 בָּ/אָֽרֶץ prep det + n c bs and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
- 2 Samuel 7:23 בָּ/אָ֑רֶץ לְ/אַרְצֶ֔/ךָ prep det + n c bs prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to you out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?
- 2 Samuel 8:2 אַ֔רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
- 2 Samuel 10:2 אֶ֖רֶץ n c bs cs David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shown kindness to me. So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
- 2 Samuel 12:16 אָֽרְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.
- 2 Samuel 12:17 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs The elders of his house arose, [and stood] beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
- 2 Samuel 12:20 מֵ/הָ/אָ֜רֶץ prep + ptcl def.art + n c bs Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the house of Yahweh, and worshiped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he ate.
- 2 Samuel 13:31 אָ֑רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
- 2 Samuel 14:4 אַ֖רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
- 2 Samuel 14:11 אָֽרְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem Then said she, Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son. He said, As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth.
- 2 Samuel 14:14 אַ֔רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
- 2 Samuel 14:20 בָּ/אָֽרֶץ prep det + n c bs to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
- 2 Samuel 14:22 אַ֛רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem Joab fell to the ground on his face, and did obeisance, and blessed the king: and Joab said, Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.
- 2 Samuel 14:33 אַ֖רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 15:4 בָּ/אָ֑רֶץ prep det + n c bs Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!
- 2 Samuel 15:23 הָ/אָ֗רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
- 2 Samuel 17:26 אֶ֖רֶץ n c bs cs Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.
- 2 Samuel 18:8 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
- 2 Samuel 18:9 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
- 2 Samuel 18:11 אָ֑רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem Joab said to the man who told him, Behold, you saw it, and why didn't you strike him there to the ground? and I would have given you ten [pieces of] silver, and a sash.
- 2 Samuel 18:28 אָ֑רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, All is well. He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, Blessed be Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king.
- 2 Samuel 19:9 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land from Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 20:10 אַ֛רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he struck him therewith in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
- 2 Samuel 21:14 בְּ/אֶ֨רֶץ לָ/אָ֖רֶץ prep + n c bs cs prep det + n c bs They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that God was entreated for the land.
- 2 Samuel 22:8 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Then the earth shook and trembled, The foundations of heaven quaked Were shaken, because he was angry.
- 2 Samuel 22:43 אָ֑רֶץ n c bs Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I did crush them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad.
- 2 Samuel 23:4 מֵ/אָֽרֶץ prep + n c bs [He shall be] as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, [When] the tender grass [springs] out of the earth, Through clear shining after rain.
- 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 24:8 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
- 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.
- 2 Samuel 24:20 אָֽרְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem Araunah looked forth, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
- 2 Samuel 24:25 לָ/אָ֔רֶץ prep det + n c bs David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
1 Kings 51 verses
- 1 Kings 1:23 אָֽרְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem They told the king, saying, Behold, Nathan the prophet. When he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
- 1 Kings 1:31 אֶ֔רֶץ n c bs Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever.
- 1 Kings 1:40 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with the sound of them.
- 1 Kings 1:52 אָ֑רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem Solomon said, If he shall show himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found in him, he shall die.
- 1 Kings 2:2 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs I am going the way of all the earth: be you strong therefore, and show yourself a man;
- 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 4:34 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
- 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 8:23 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs and he said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;
- 1 Kings 8:27 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
- 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 8:41 מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ prep + n c bs Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake
- 1 Kings 8:43 הָ/אָ֜רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by my name.
- 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 8:53 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs For you did separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 8:60 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God; there is none else.
- 1 Kings 9:8 לָ/אָ֥רֶץ prep det + n c bs Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?
- 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 9:18 בָּ/אָֽרֶץ prep det + n c bs and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,
- 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 9:21 בָּ/אָ֔רֶץ prep det + n c bs their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day.
- 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 10:15 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs besides [that which] the traders [brought], and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country.
- 1 Kings 10:23 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
- 1 Kings 10:24 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
- 1 Kings 11:18 וְ/אֶ֖רֶץ conj + n c bs They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land.
- 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 14:24 בָ/אָ֑רֶץ prep det + n c bs and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.
- 1 Kings 15:12 הָ/אָ֑רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 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 17:7 בָּ/אָֽרֶץ prep det + n c bs It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
- 1 Kings 18:5 בָּ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ prep det + n c bs Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.
- 1 Kings 18:6 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
- 1 Kings 18:42 אַ֔רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.
- 1 Kings 20:7 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Please notice how this man seeks mischief: for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn't deny him.
- 1 Kings 20:27 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs The children of Israel were mustered, and were provisioned, and went against them: and the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.
- 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.
- 1 Kings 22:46 הָ/אָֽרֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
2 Kings 59 verses
- 2 Kings 2:15 אָֽרְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho over against him saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah does rest on Elisha. They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
- 2 Kings 2:19 וְ/הָ/אָ֥רֶץ conj + ptcl def.art + n c bs The men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, we pray you, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees: but the water is bad, and the land miscarries.
- 2 Kings 3:20 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs It happened in the morning, about the time of offering the offering, that behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
- 2 Kings 3:27 לָ/אָֽרֶץ prep det + n c bs Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
- 2 Kings 4:37 אָ֑רְצָ/ה n c bs + sfx dem Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.
- 2 Kings 4:38 בָּ/אָ֔רֶץ prep det + n c bs Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.
- 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 5:15 הָ/אָ֔רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, please take a present from your servant.
- 2 Kings 5:19 אָֽרֶץ n c bs He said to him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
- 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 8:1 הָ/אָ֖רֶץ ptcl def.art + n c bs Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go you and your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn: for Yahweh has called for a famine; and it shall also come on the land seven years.
- 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.
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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.
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- 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.
