Strong G1093G1093Gγῆ
earth: planet
One of the 3 senses of Strong G1093
- Transliteration
- gē
- Pronunciation
- ghay
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Contracted from a primary word;
soil; by extension a region or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application): - country earth (-ly) ground land world.
soil; by extension a region or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application): - country earth (-ly) ground land world.
Detailed definition
γῆ, γῆς, ἡ,
[in LXX for אֲדָמָה,אֶרֶץ, etc.;]
1. the earth, world: Luk.21:35, Act.1:8, Heb.11:13, Rev.3:10, al.; opposite to οὐρανός, Mat.5:18 11:25, Mrk.13:27, al.
2. land;
__(a) opposite to sea or water: Mrk.4:1, Luk.5:3, Jhn.6:21, al.;
__(b) as subject to cultivation: Mat.13:5, Mrk.4:8, Luk.13:7, Heb.6:7, al.;
__(with) the ground: Mat.10:29, Mrk.8:6, Luk.24:5, Jhn.8:6, al.;
__(d) a region, country: Luk.4:25, Rom.9:28, Jas.5:17; γῆ Ἰσραήλ, Mat.2:20, 21; Χαλδαίων, Act.7:4; ἡ Ἰουδαία γῆ, Jhn.3:22; with genitive of person(s), Act.7:3.
(AS)
[in LXX for אֲדָמָה,אֶרֶץ, etc.;]
1. the earth, world: Luk.21:35, Act.1:8, Heb.11:13, Rev.3:10, al.; opposite to οὐρανός, Mat.5:18 11:25, Mrk.13:27, al.
2. land;
__(a) opposite to sea or water: Mrk.4:1, Luk.5:3, Jhn.6:21, al.;
__(b) as subject to cultivation: Mat.13:5, Mrk.4:8, Luk.13:7, Heb.6:7, al.;
__(with) the ground: Mat.10:29, Mrk.8:6, Luk.24:5, Jhn.8:6, al.;
__(d) a region, country: Luk.4:25, Rom.9:28, Jas.5:17; γῆ Ἰσραήλ, Mat.2:20, 21; Χαλδαίων, Act.7:4; ἡ Ἰουδαία γῆ, Jhn.3:22; with genitive of person(s), Act.7:3.
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G1093G appears in 146 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- earth143
- earthly1
- ground1
- land1
- world1
First verses
- Matthew 5:5Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
- Matthew 5:13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
- Matthew 5:18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
- Matthew 5:35Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
- Matthew 6:10Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
- Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
- Matthew 9:6But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
- Matthew 10:34Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
- Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
- Matthew 12:40For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
- Matthew 12:42The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
- Matthew 16:19And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
- Matthew 17:25He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?
- Matthew 18:18Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
- Matthew 18:19Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
- Matthew 23:9And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
- Matthew 23:35That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
- Matthew 24:30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
- Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
- Matthew 27:51And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
γῆ, ἡ,
occasionally in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, frequently in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus, and the only form in _Attic dialect_ Prose for γαῖα)]: dual γαῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 736: _plural_ rare, γαῖ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 934b9, γέαι “SIG” 279.40 (from Zelea), etc., “Anthologia Graeca” 9.430 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Crinagoras Epigrammaticus): _genitive_ γεῶν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.198, “GDI” 5755.14 (from Mylasa))]; γῶν [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“BGU” 993 iii 10 (2nd c.BC): _accusative_ γέας [3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus] 299, “SIG” 46.3 (Halic.), γᾶς “PTeb.” 6.31 (2nd c.BC), 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.5.26; 5th c.AD: Cypria ζᾶς “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 135.30 H.: _dative_ _plural_ γέαις probably in “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 2693f9 (from Mylasa), “LW” 415.9 ([prev. passage]))]:—earth (including land and sea, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 5.2))] opposed to heaven, or land opposed to sea, Γῆ τε καὶ Ἠέλιος καὶ Ἐρινύες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.259, compare 3.104)]; τίς γ; [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.233; γῆς περίοδοι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.36, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 362b12, title of work by 4th-5th c.BC: Hecataeus Milesius Historicus: personified, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” [same place], 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 69, “Pers.” 629, etc.)]; κατὰ γῆν on land, by land, opposed to ναυσί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.18)]; opposed to ἐκ θαλάσσης, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.81; κατὰ γῆν στέλλεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.5, etc.)]; ἐπὶ γῆς on earth, opposed to νέρθε, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 416)]; κατὰ γῆς below the earth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 377, 475, etc.; κάτω γῆς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 968; ὑπὸ γῆς [prev. author] “fragment” 572; γᾶς ὑπένερθε 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 292)]: genitive with local Adverbs, ἵνα γῆς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 168)]; ποῦ, ποῖ, ὅποι γ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 108, “Ph.” 1211, “El.” 922; ὅπου γ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 9.)]
2 earth, as an element, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 27, 5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 4, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 320d, “Lg.” 889b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 989a5, “Cael.” 306a18, etc.)]
2.b γῆν καὶ ὕδωρ αἰτεῖν, as tokens of submission, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.18, 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 71; γῆν καὶ ὕδωρ διδόναι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.18, +others)]
II land, country, καὶ γῆν καὶ πόλιν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 993)]; γῆν πρὸ γῆς ἐλαύνεσθαι, διώκειν, from land to land, [LXX+5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Pr.” 682, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 235; ἡ ἁγία γῆ LXX.Wis.12.3)]; one's native land, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 12.33, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1213, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 890 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 441, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1090)]; frequently omitted with article, ἐκ τῆς ἐμαυτοῦ (i.e. γῆς) δραπέτας [Refs ([prev. author] “Heracl.” 140, etc.)]
II.2 frequently in Trag., city, αὐτός τε καὶ γῆ δορὶ πεσοῦσ᾽ Ἑλληνικῷ [Refs ([prev. author] “Tr.” 868.)]
III the earth or ground as tilled, ἄροτον γῆς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 270; γᾶ φθίνουσα [prev. work] 665)], etc.; τὴν γῆν ἐργάζεσθαι, θεραπεύειν, till the ground, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 420e, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 5.12; τὰ ἐκ τῆς γῆς φυόμενα [prev. author] “Mem.” 4.3.10.)]
III.2 estate, farm, γῆν πρίασθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 32.23)]; ἐπὶ γῇ δανείζειν lend on mortgage, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 36.6.)]
IV of particular kinds of earth or minerals, e.g. fuller's earth. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 10.14, compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 12.168; Κιμωλία γ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 712, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.189.)]
occasionally in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, frequently in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus, and the only form in _Attic dialect_ Prose for γαῖα)]: dual γαῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 736: _plural_ rare, γαῖ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 934b9, γέαι “SIG” 279.40 (from Zelea), etc., “Anthologia Graeca” 9.430 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Crinagoras Epigrammaticus): _genitive_ γεῶν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.198, “GDI” 5755.14 (from Mylasa))]; γῶν [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“BGU” 993 iii 10 (2nd c.BC): _accusative_ γέας [3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus] 299, “SIG” 46.3 (Halic.), γᾶς “PTeb.” 6.31 (2nd c.BC), 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.5.26; 5th c.AD: Cypria ζᾶς “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 135.30 H.: _dative_ _plural_ γέαις probably in “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 2693f9 (from Mylasa), “LW” 415.9 ([prev. passage]))]:—earth (including land and sea, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 5.2))] opposed to heaven, or land opposed to sea, Γῆ τε καὶ Ἠέλιος καὶ Ἐρινύες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.259, compare 3.104)]; τίς γ; [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.233; γῆς περίοδοι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.36, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 362b12, title of work by 4th-5th c.BC: Hecataeus Milesius Historicus: personified, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” [same place], 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 69, “Pers.” 629, etc.)]; κατὰ γῆν on land, by land, opposed to ναυσί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.18)]; opposed to ἐκ θαλάσσης, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.81; κατὰ γῆν στέλλεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.5, etc.)]; ἐπὶ γῆς on earth, opposed to νέρθε, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 416)]; κατὰ γῆς below the earth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 377, 475, etc.; κάτω γῆς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 968; ὑπὸ γῆς [prev. author] “fragment” 572; γᾶς ὑπένερθε 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 292)]: genitive with local Adverbs, ἵνα γῆς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 168)]; ποῦ, ποῖ, ὅποι γ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 108, “Ph.” 1211, “El.” 922; ὅπου γ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 9.)]
2 earth, as an element, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 27, 5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 4, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 320d, “Lg.” 889b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 989a5, “Cael.” 306a18, etc.)]
2.b γῆν καὶ ὕδωρ αἰτεῖν, as tokens of submission, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.18, 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 71; γῆν καὶ ὕδωρ διδόναι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.18, +others)]
II land, country, καὶ γῆν καὶ πόλιν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 993)]; γῆν πρὸ γῆς ἐλαύνεσθαι, διώκειν, from land to land, [LXX+5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Pr.” 682, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 235; ἡ ἁγία γῆ LXX.Wis.12.3)]; one's native land, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 12.33, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1213, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 890 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 441, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1090)]; frequently omitted with article, ἐκ τῆς ἐμαυτοῦ (i.e. γῆς) δραπέτας [Refs ([prev. author] “Heracl.” 140, etc.)]
II.2 frequently in Trag., city, αὐτός τε καὶ γῆ δορὶ πεσοῦσ᾽ Ἑλληνικῷ [Refs ([prev. author] “Tr.” 868.)]
III the earth or ground as tilled, ἄροτον γῆς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 270; γᾶ φθίνουσα [prev. work] 665)], etc.; τὴν γῆν ἐργάζεσθαι, θεραπεύειν, till the ground, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 420e, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 5.12; τὰ ἐκ τῆς γῆς φυόμενα [prev. author] “Mem.” 4.3.10.)]
III.2 estate, farm, γῆν πρίασθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 32.23)]; ἐπὶ γῇ δανείζειν lend on mortgage, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 36.6.)]
IV of particular kinds of earth or minerals, e.g. fuller's earth. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 10.14, compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 12.168; Κιμωλία γ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 712, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.189.)]