# H776 אֶרֶץ

אֶרֶץ (ʼerets), Strong’s H776: the earth (at large, or partitively a land) KJV: [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase]…. Occurs 2,501 times.

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*ʼerets* — the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

KJV: [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase]…

Occurs 2501 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=1) — In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- [Genesis 1:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=2) — The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the…
- [Genesis 1:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=10) — God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.
- [Genesis 1:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=11) — God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their…
- [Genesis 1:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=12) — The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after…
- [Genesis 1:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=15) — and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.
- [Genesis 1:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=17) — God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,
- [Genesis 1:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=20) — God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the…
- [Genesis 1:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=22) — God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the…
- [Genesis 1:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=24) — God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the…