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Strong's H776: אֶרֶץ (ʼerets) Definition

Strong's number
H776
Lemma
אֶרֶץ
Transliteration
ʼerets
Pronunciation
eh'-rets
Strong's definition
the earth (at large, or partitively a land) [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world. from an unused root probably meaning to be firm;

2194 instances of the word אֶרֶץ ʼerets (H776)


  • Genesis 18:25 - That be far do after this manner to slay and that the righteous should be as the wicked and that the righteous should be as the wicked That be far from thee Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right

  • Genesis 19:1 - And there came two angels of Sodom at even and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom seeing and Lot them rose up to meet them and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground

  • Genesis 19:23 - The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar

  • Genesis 19:28 - And he looked and toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain and beheld went up and lo the smoke all the land and lo the smoke of a furnace

  • Genesis 19:31 - said And the firstborn unto the younger Our father is old and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner in the earth

  • Genesis 20:1 - journeyed And Abraham country from thence toward the south and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur and sojourned in Gerar

  • Genesis 20:15 - said And Abimelech Behold my land is before thee where it pleaseth dwell

  • Genesis 21:21 - And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran took and his mother him a wife out of the land of Egypt

  • Genesis 21:23 - Now therefore swear by God unto me here that thou wilt not deal falsely with me nor with my son nor with my son's son but according to the kindness that I have done that I have done unto me and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned

  • Genesis 21:32 - Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba rose up then Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host and they returned into the land of the Philistines

  • Genesis 21:34 - sojourned And Abraham land in the Philistines days many

  • Genesis 22:2 - And he said Take now thy son thine only whom thou lovest son Isaac into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains And he said

  • Genesis 22:18 - be blessed And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth because thou hast obeyed my voice

  • Genesis 23:2 - died And Sarah in Kirjatharba the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan came and Abraham to mourn And Sarah and to weep

  • Genesis 23:7 - stood up And Abraham and bowed himself to the people of the land even to the children of Heth

  • Genesis 23:12 - bowed down And Abraham himself before the people of the land

  • Genesis 23:13 - And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land saying But if thou wilt give it I pray thee hear me I will give thee money for the field take it of me and I will bury my dead

  • Genesis 23:15 - My lord hearken unto me the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver what is that betwixt what is that betwixt therefore thy dead me and thee bury

  • Genesis 23:19 - And after this buried Abraham Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan

  • Genesis 24:3 - And I will make thee swear by the LORD and the God of heaven and the God of the earth that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites whom I dwell among