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. Genesis 18:18 הָאָֽרֶץ׃

    Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

  2. Genesis 18:25 הָאָ֔רֶץ

    Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”

  3. Genesis 19:1 אָֽרְצָה׃

    Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,

  4. Genesis 19:23 הָאָ֑רֶץ

    And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.

  5. Genesis 19:28 אֶ֣רֶץהָאָ֔רֶץ

    He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.

  6. Genesis 19:31 בָּאָ֙רֶץ֙הָאָֽרֶץ׃

    One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.

  7. Genesis 20:1 אַ֣רְצָה

    Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,

  8. Genesis 20:15 אַרְצִ֖י

    And Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you. Settle wherever you please.”

  9. Genesis 21:21 מֵאֶ֥רֶץ

    And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

  10. Genesis 21:23 הָאָ֖רֶץ

    Now, therefore, swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or descendants. Show to me and to the country in which you reside the same kindness that I have shown to you.”

  11. Genesis 21:32 אֶ֥רֶץ

    After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

  12. Genesis 21:34 בְּאֶ֥רֶץ

    And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.

  13. Genesis 22:2 אֶ֖רֶץ

    “Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

  14. Genesis 22:18 הָאָ֑רֶץ

    And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

  15. Genesis 23:2 בְּאֶ֣רֶץ

    She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.

  16. Genesis 23:7 הָאָ֖רֶץ

    Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.

  17. Genesis 23:12 הָאָֽרֶץ׃

    Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land

  18. Genesis 23:13 הָאָ֙רֶץ֙

    and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”

  19. Genesis 23:15 אֶרֶץ֩

    “Listen to me, my lord. The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver, but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

  20. Genesis 23:19 בְּאֶ֖רֶץ

    After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

  21. Genesis 24:3 הָאָ֑רֶץ

    and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,

  22. Genesis 24:4 אַרְצִ֛י

    but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”

  23. Genesis 24:5 הָאָ֣רֶץהָאָ֖רֶץ

    The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”

  24. Genesis 24:7 וּמֵאֶ֣רֶץהָאָ֣רֶץ

    The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.

  25. Genesis 24:37 בְּאַרְצֽוֹ׃

    My master made me swear an oath and said, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell,

  26. Genesis 24:52 אַ֖רְצָה

    When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.

  27. Genesis 24:62 בְּאֶ֥רֶץ

    Now Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.

  28. Genesis 25:6 אֶ֥רֶץ

    But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.

  29. Genesis 26:1 בָּאָ֔רֶץ

    Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

  30. Genesis 26:2 בָּאָ֔רֶץ

    The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.

  31. Genesis 26:3 בָּאָ֣רֶץהָֽאֲרָצֹ֣ת

    Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

  32. Genesis 26:4 הָאֲרָצֹ֖תהָאָֽרֶץ׃

    I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

  33. Genesis 26:12 בָּאָ֣רֶץ

    Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

  34. Genesis 26:22 בָאָֽרֶץ׃

    He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

  35. Genesis 27:28 הָאָ֑רֶץ

    May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth— an abundance of grain and new wine.

  36. Genesis 27:39 הָאָ֙רֶץ֙

    His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.

  37. Genesis 27:46 הָאָ֔רֶץ

    Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”

  38. Genesis 28:4 אֶ֣רֶץ

    And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”

  39. Genesis 28:12 אַ֔רְצָה

    And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.

  40. Genesis 28:13 הָאָ֗רֶץ

    And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.

  41. Genesis 28:14 הָאָ֔רֶץ

    Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

  42. Genesis 29:1 אַ֥רְצָה

    Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.

  43. Genesis 30:25 וּלְאַרְצִֽי׃

    Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.

  44. Genesis 31:3 אֶ֥רֶץ

    Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”

  45. Genesis 31:13 הָאָ֣רֶץאֶ֥רֶץ

    I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up and leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”

  46. Genesis 31:18 אַ֥רְצָה

    and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.

  47. Genesis 32:3 אַ֥רְצָה

    Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

  48. Genesis 32:9 לְאַרְצְךָ֛

    Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’

  49. Genesis 33:3 אַ֙רְצָה֙

    But Jacob himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

  50. Genesis 33:18 בְּאֶ֣רֶץ

    After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.

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