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 34:1 הָאָֽרֶץ׃

    Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.

  2. Genesis 34:2 הָאָ֑רֶץ

    When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

  3. Genesis 34:10 וְהָאָ֙רֶץ֙

    You may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property.”

  4. Genesis 34:21 בָאָ֙רֶץ֙וְהָאָ֛רֶץ

    “These men are at peace with us. Let them live and trade in our land; indeed, it is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage and give our daughters to them.

  5. Genesis 34:30 הָאָ֔רֶץ

    Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

  6. Genesis 35:6 בְּאֶ֣רֶץ

    So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

  7. Genesis 35:12 הָאָ֗רֶץהָאָֽרֶץ׃

    The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”

  8. Genesis 35:16 הָאָ֖רֶץ

    Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

  9. Genesis 35:22 בָּאָ֣רֶץ

    While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

  10. Genesis 36:5 בְּאֶ֥רֶץ

    and Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

  11. Genesis 36:6 בְּאֶ֣רֶץאֶ֔רֶץ

    Later, Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the people of his household, along with his livestock, all his other animals, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan, and he moved to a land far away from his brother Jacob.

  12. Genesis 36:7 אֶ֤רֶץ

    For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.

  13. Genesis 36:16 בְּאֶ֣רֶץ

    Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. They are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom, and they are the grandsons of Adah.

  14. Genesis 36:17 בְּאֶ֣רֶץ

    These are the sons of Esau’s son Reuel: Chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the chiefs descended from Reuel in the land of Edom, and they are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

  15. Genesis 36:20 הָאָ֑רֶץ

    These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

  16. Genesis 36:21 בְּאֶ֥רֶץ

    Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. They are the chiefs of the Horites, the descendants of Seir in the land of Edom.

  17. Genesis 36:30 בְּאֶ֥רֶץ

    Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. They are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their divisions in the land of Seir.

  18. Genesis 36:31 בְּאֶ֣רֶץ

    These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:

  19. Genesis 36:34 מֵאֶ֥רֶץ

    When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

  20. Genesis 36:43 בְּאֶ֣רֶץ

    Magdiel, and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. Esau was the father of the Edomites.

  21. Genesis 37:1 בְּאֶ֖רֶץבְּאֶ֖רֶץ

    Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.

  22. Genesis 37:10 אָֽרְצָה׃

    He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”

  23. Genesis 38:9 אַ֔רְצָה

    But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.

  24. Genesis 40:15 מֵאֶ֖רֶץ

    For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”

  25. Genesis 41:19 אֶ֥רֶץ

    After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!

  26. Genesis 41:29 אֶ֥רֶץ

    Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,

  27. Genesis 41:30 בְּאֶ֣רֶץהָאָֽרֶץ׃

    but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.

  28. Genesis 41:31 בָּאָ֔רֶץ

    The abundance in the land will not be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.

  29. Genesis 41:33 אֶ֥רֶץ

    Now, therefore, Pharaoh should look for a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of Egypt.

  30. Genesis 41:34 הָאָ֑רֶץאֶ֣רֶץ

    Let Pharaoh take action and appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

  31. Genesis 41:36 לָאָ֔רֶץבְּאֶ֣רֶץהָאָ֖רֶץ

    This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine.”

  32. Genesis 41:41 אֶ֥רֶץ

    Pharaoh also told Joseph, “I hereby place you over all the land of Egypt.”

  33. Genesis 41:43 אֶ֥רֶץ

    He had Joseph ride in his second chariot, with men calling out before him, “Bow the knee!” So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

  34. Genesis 41:44 אֶ֥רֶץ

    And Pharaoh declared to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission, no one in all the land of Egypt shall lift his hand or foot.”

  35. Genesis 41:45 אֶ֥רֶץ

    Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph took charge of all the land of Egypt.

  36. Genesis 41:46 אֶ֥רֶץ

    Now Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph left Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout the land of Egypt.

  37. Genesis 41:47 הָאָ֔רֶץ

    During the seven years of abundance, the land brought forth bountifully.

  38. Genesis 41:48 בְּאֶ֣רֶץ

    During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.

  39. Genesis 41:52 בְּאֶ֥רֶץ

    And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

  40. Genesis 41:53 בְּאֶ֥רֶץ

    When the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,

  41. Genesis 41:54 הָ֣אֲרָצ֔וֹתאֶ֥רֶץ

    the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.

  42. Genesis 41:55 אֶ֣רֶץ

    When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”

  43. Genesis 41:56 הָאָ֑רֶץבְּאֶ֥רֶץ

    When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

  44. Genesis 41:57 הָאָ֙רֶץ֙הָאָֽרֶץ׃

    And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

  45. Genesis 42:5 בְּאֶ֥רֶץ

    So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.

  46. Genesis 42:6 הָאָ֔רֶץהָאָ֑רֶץאָֽרְצָה׃

    Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

  47. Genesis 42:7 מֵאֶ֥רֶץ

    And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”

  48. Genesis 42:9 הָאָ֖רֶץ

    Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

  49. Genesis 42:12 הָאָ֖רֶץ

    “No,” he told them. “You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

  50. Genesis 42:13 בְּאֶ֣רֶץ

    But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”

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