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Word Study · Strong's H776 · Hebrew

אֶרֶץ

erets

eh'-rets

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼerets

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

Rendered in the KJV as

[idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.

  • 2,504
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 116
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 116

  • הָאָֽרֶץ׃51
  • הָאָ֑רֶץ39
  • בְּאֶ֣רֶץ34
  • הָאָ֖רֶץ22
  • אֶ֥רֶץ20
  • הָאָ֔רֶץ20
  • אָֽרֶץ׃17
  • אָ֑רֶץ16
  • בְּאֶ֥רֶץ16
  • אֶ֣רֶץ15
  • בָּאָֽרֶץ׃12
  • הָאָ֣רֶץ12

and 104 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 64

  • the earth137
  • in [the] land of57
  • the land55
  • [the] earth40
  • [the] land of34
  • in the land22
  • on the earth21
  • [the] land12
  • [the] ground towards11
  • [the] land of towards11
  • from [the] land of11
  • and earth8

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 28

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular193
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)75
  • noun · feminine singular62
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular58
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)36
  • noun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)12
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + directional ending (“toward”)11
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular8
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular7
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular6
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural3
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HTd/Ncfsa · 193
  • HR/Ncfsc · 75
  • HNcfsa · 62
  • HRd/Ncfsa · 58
  • HNcfsc · 36
  • HNcfsa/Sd · 12
  • HNcfsc/Sd · 11
  • HC/Ncfsa · 8
  • HR/Ncfsa · 7
  • HC/Td/Ncfsa · 6
  • HC/R/Ncfsc · 3
  • HNcfsc/Sp3mp · 3

The first 500 of 2,504, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis310 occurrences
Psalms190 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).