אֶ֫רֶץ

e.rets

Hebrew H0776 Noun, feminine 2,504 occurrences in 2,190 verses
אֶ֫רֶץ land: country/planet

1. land, earth

a. earth

1. whole earth (as opposed to a part)

2. earth (as opposed to heaven)

3. earth (inhabitants)

b. land

1. country, territory

2. district, region

3. tribal territory

4. piece of ground

5. land of Canaan, Israel

6. inhabitants of land

7. Sheol, land without return, (under) world

8. city (-state)

c. ground, surface of the earth

1. ground

2. soil

d. (in phrases)

1. people of the land

2. space or distance of country (in measurements of distance)

3. level or plain country

4. land of the living

5. end(s) of the earth

e. (almost wholly late in usage)

1. lands, countries

a. often in contrast to Canaan

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 2,190 verses

  1. 2 Samuel 3:12 אָ֑רֶץ

    Then Abner sent messengers in his place to say to David, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and surely my hand will be with you to bring all Israel over to you.”

  2. 2 Samuel 4:11 הָאָֽרֶץ׃

    How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!”

  3. 2 Samuel 5:6 הָאָ֑רֶץ

    Now the king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites said to David: “You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you.” For they thought, “David cannot get in here.”

  4. 2 Samuel 7:9 בָּאָֽרֶץ׃

    I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land.

  5. 2 Samuel 7:23 בָּאָ֑רֶץלְאַרְצֶ֔ךָ

    And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.

  6. 2 Samuel 8:2 אַ֔רְצָה

    David also defeated the Moabites, made them lie down on the ground, and measured them off with a cord. He measured off with two lengths those to be put to death, and with one length those to be spared. So the Moabites became subject to David and brought him tribute.

  7. 2 Samuel 10:2 אֶ֖רֶץ

    And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent some of his servants to console Hanun concerning his father. But when they arrived in the land of the Ammonites,

  8. 2 Samuel 12:16 אָֽרְצָה׃

    David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.

  9. 2 Samuel 12:17 הָאָ֑רֶץ

    The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.

  10. 2 Samuel 12:20 מֵהָאָ֜רֶץ

    Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.

  11. 2 Samuel 13:31 אָ֑רְצָה

    Then the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

  12. 2 Samuel 14:4 אַ֖רְצָה

    When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”

  13. 2 Samuel 14:11 אָֽרְצָה׃

    “Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

  14. 2 Samuel 14:14 אַ֔רְצָה

    For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

  15. 2 Samuel 14:20 בָּאָֽרֶץ׃ס

    Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”

  16. 2 Samuel 14:22 אַ֛רְצָה

    Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor with you, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”

  17. 2 Samuel 14:33 אַ֖רְצָה

    So Joab went and told the king, and David summoned Absalom, who came to him and bowed facedown before him. Then the king kissed Absalom.

  18. 2 Samuel 15:4 בָּאָ֑רֶץ

    And he would add, “If only someone would appoint me judge in the land, then everyone with a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would give him justice.”

  19. 2 Samuel 15:23 הָאָ֗רֶץ

    Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.

  20. 2 Samuel 17:26 אֶ֖רֶץ

    So the Israelites and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.

  21. 2 Samuel 18:8 הָאָ֑רֶץ

    The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.

  22. 2 Samuel 18:9 הָאָ֔רֶץ

    Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.

  23. 2 Samuel 18:11 אָ֑רְצָה

    “You just saw him!” Joab exclaimed. “Why did you not strike him to the ground right there? I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a warrior’s belt!”

  24. 2 Samuel 18:28 אָ֑רְצָהס

    Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well!” And he bowed facedown before the king. He continued, “Blessed be the LORD your God! He has delivered up the men who raised their hands against my lord the king.”

  25. 2 Samuel 19:9 הָאָ֖רֶץ

    And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.

  26. 2 Samuel 20:10 אַ֛רְצָה

    Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him again, for Amasa was dead. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.

  27. 2 Samuel 21:14 בְּאֶ֨רֶץלָאָ֖רֶץ

    And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.

  28. 2 Samuel 22:8 הָאָ֔רֶץ

    Then the earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the heavens trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.

  29. 2 Samuel 22:43 אָ֑רֶץ

    I ground them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them like mud in the streets.

  30. 2 Samuel 23:4 מֵאָֽרֶץ׃

    is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’

  31. 2 Samuel 24:6 אֶ֥רֶץ

    Then they went to Gilead and the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and on to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon.

  32. 2 Samuel 24:8 הָאָ֑רֶץ

    At the end of nine months and twenty days, having gone through the whole land, they returned to Jerusalem.

  33. 2 Samuel 24:13 בְּאַרְצֶ֡ךָבְּאַרְצֶ֔ךָ

    So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

  34. 2 Samuel 24:20 אָֽרְצָה׃

    When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.

  35. 2 Samuel 24:25 לָאָ֔רֶץ

    And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the LORD answered the prayers on behalf of the land, and the plague upon Israel was halted.

  36. 1 Kings 1:23 אָֽרְצָה׃

    So the king was told, “Nathan the prophet is here.” And Nathan went in and bowed facedown before the king.

  37. 1 Kings 1:31 אֶ֔רֶץ

    Bathsheba bowed facedown in homage to the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”

  38. 1 Kings 1:40 הָאָ֖רֶץ

    All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.

  39. 1 Kings 1:52 אָ֑רְצָה

    And Solomon replied, “If he is a man of character, not a single hair of his will fall to the ground. But if evil is found in him, he will die.”

  40. 1 Kings 2:2 הָאָ֑רֶץ

    “I am about to go the way of all the earth. So be strong and prove yourself a man.

  41. 1 Kings 4:10 אֶ֥רֶץ

    Ben-hesed in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

  42. 1 Kings 4:19 בְּאֶ֣רֶץאֶ֜רֶץבָּאָֽרֶץ׃

    Geber son of Uri in the land of Gilead, including the territories of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. There was also one governor in the land of Judah.

  43. 1 Kings 4:21 אֶ֣רֶץ

    And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

  44. 1 Kings 4:34 הָאָ֔רֶץ

    So men of all nations came to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, sent by all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

  45. 1 Kings 6:1 מֵאֶֽרֶץ־

    In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.

  46. 1 Kings 8:9 מֵאֶ֥רֶץ

    There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.

  47. 1 Kings 8:21 מֵאֶ֥רֶץ

    And there I have provided a place for the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

  48. 1 Kings 8:23 הָאָ֖רֶץ

    and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

  49. 1 Kings 8:27 הָאָ֑רֶץ

    But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

  50. 1 Kings 8:36 אַרְצְךָ֔

    then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.

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