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Strong H776H776Gאֶ֫רֶץ

land: country/planet

One of the 2 senses of Strong H776

Transliteration
'erets
Pronunciation
eh'-rets
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

Definition

: country/field
1) land, earth
1a) earth
1a1) whole earth (as opposed to a part)
1a2) earth (as opposed to heaven)
1a3) earth (inhabitants)
1b) land
1b1) country, territory
1b2) district, region
1b3) tribal territory
1b4) piece of ground
1b5) land of Canaan, Israel
1b6) inhabitants of land
1b7) Sheol, land without return, (under) world
1b8) city (-state)
1c) ground, surface of the earth
1c1) ground
1c2) soil
1d) (in phrases)
1d1) people of the land
1d2) space or distance of country (in measurements of distance)
1d3) level or plain country
1d4) land of the living
1d5) end(s) of the earth
1e) (almost wholly late in usage)
1e1) lands, countries
1e1a) often in contrast to Canaan

General definition

From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at {large} or partitively a land): - X {common} {country} {earth} {field} {ground} {land} X {nations} {way} + {wilderness} world.

In the Bible

Strong H776G appears in 2,003 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • land1,315
  • earth567
  • country129
  • let11
  • ground8
  • world4
  • way3
  • make2
  • mine2
  • pray2
  • cause1
  • nation1

First verses

  1. Genesis 1:1
    In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
  2. Genesis 1:2
    And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
  3. Genesis 1:10
    And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
  4. Genesis 1:11
    And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
  5. Genesis 1:12
    And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
  6. Genesis 1:15
    And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
  7. Genesis 1:17
    And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
  8. Genesis 1:20
    And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
  9. Genesis 1:22
    And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
  10. Genesis 1:25
    And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
  11. Genesis 1:26
    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
  12. Genesis 1:28
    And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
  13. Genesis 1:29
    And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
  14. Genesis 2:1
    Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
  15. Genesis 2:4
    These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
  16. Genesis 2:5
    And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
  17. Genesis 2:6
    But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
  18. Genesis 2:11
    The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
  19. Genesis 2:12
    And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
  20. Genesis 2:13
    And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
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