{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H776",
  "lemma": "אֶרֶץ",
  "transliteration": "ʼerets",
  "definition": "the earth (at large, or partitively a land)",
  "kjv": "[idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase]…",
  "occurrences": 2501,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "אֶ֫רֶץ n. f. & (seld.) m. earth, land",
    "a. earth, whole earth (opp. to a part)",
    "b. earth, opp. to heaven, sky",
    "c. earth = inhabitants of earth",
    "2. land =",
    "a. country, territory",
    "b. district, region",
    "c. trial territory",
    "d. piece of ground",
    "e. specif. land of Canaan, or Israel",
    "f. = inhabitants of land",
    "g. used even of Shᵉʼôl",
    "a. ground, surface of ground",
    "b. soil, as productive",
    "4. אֶרֶץ in phrases",
    "a. people of the land",
    "b. in measurements of distance",
    "c. the country of the plain, level or plain country",
    "d. land of the living",
    "e. end(s) of the earth",
    "5. pl. אֲרָצוֹת is almost wholly late; it denotes lands, countries, often in contrast to Canaan, lands of the nations, etc."
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:1",
      "text": "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:2",
      "text": "The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:10",
      "text": "God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:11",
      "text": "God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:12",
      "text": "The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:15",
      "text": "and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:17",
      "text": "God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:20",
      "text": "God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:22",
      "text": "God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:24",
      "text": "God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=24"
    }
  ],
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