Usually translated as
land, earth, ground, country, world, way, field, wilderness, common, natins
Occurrences
ʼerets occurs 2,504 times in 2,191 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (252), Exodus (111), Leviticus (67), Numbers (104), Deuteronomy (171), Joshua (91), Judges (53), Ruth (4), 1 Samuel (45), 2 Samuel (37), 1 Kings (51), 2 Kings (59), 1 Chronicles (38), 2 Chronicles (69), Ezra (11), Nehemiah (16), Esther (2), Job (57), Psalms (188), Proverbs (22), Ecclesiastes (13), Song of Songs (1), Isaiah (166), Jeremiah (236), Lamentations (10), Ezekiel (173), Daniel (17), Hosea (19), Joel (12), Amos (21), Obadiah (1), Jonah (2), Micah (13), Nahum (3), Habakkuk (10), Zephaniah (7), Haggai (5), Zechariah (32), Malachi (2)
- Genesis 1:1 — In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth (הָאָֽרֶץ).
- Genesis 1:2 — And the earth (וְהָאָ֗רֶץ) was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
- Genesis 1:10 — And God called the dry land Earth (אֶ֔רֶץ); and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:11 — And God said, Let the earth (הָאָ֙רֶץ֙) bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:11 — And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth (הָאָ֑רֶץ): and it was so.
- Genesis 1:12 — And the earth (הָאָ֜רֶץ) brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:15 — And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth (הָאָ֑רֶץ): and it was so.
- Genesis 1:17 — And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth (הָאָֽרֶץ),
- Genesis 1:20 — And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth (הָאָ֔רֶץ) in the open firmament of heaven.
- Genesis 1:22 — And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth (בָּאָֽרֶץ).
- Genesis 1:24 — And God said, Let the earth (הָאָ֜רֶץ) bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:24 — And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth (אֶ֖רֶץ) after his kind: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:25 — And God made the beast of the earth (הָאָ֜רֶץ) after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:26 — And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth (הָאָ֔רֶץ), and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- Genesis 1:26 — And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth (הָאָֽרֶץ).
- Genesis 1:28 — And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth (הָאָ֖רֶץ), and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
- Genesis 1:28 — And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth (הָאָֽרֶץ).
- Genesis 1:29 — And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth (הָאָ֔רֶץ), and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
- Genesis 1:30 — And to every beast of the earth (הָ֠אָרֶץ), and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:30 — And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth (הָאָ֗רֶץ), wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
- Genesis 2:1 — Thus the heavens and the earth (וְהָאָ֖רֶץ) were finished, and all the host of them.
- Genesis 2:4 — These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth (וְהָאָ֖רֶץ) when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
- Genesis 2:4 — These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth (אֶ֥רֶץ) and the heavens,
- Genesis 2:5 — And every plant of the field before it was in the earth (בָאָ֔רֶץ), and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
- Genesis 2:5 — And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth (הָאָ֔רֶץ), and there was not a man to till the ground.
- Genesis 2:6 — But there went up a mist from the earth (הָאָ֑רֶץ), and watered the whole face of the ground.
- Genesis 2:11 — The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land (אֶ֣רֶץ) of Havilah, where there is gold;
- Genesis 2:12 — And the gold of that land (הָאָ֥רֶץ) is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
- Genesis 2:13 — And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land (אֶ֥רֶץ) of Ethiopia.
- Genesis 4:12 — When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth (בָאָֽרֶץ).
- Genesis 4:14 — Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth (בָּאָ֔רֶץ); and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
- Genesis 4:16 — And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land (בְּאֶֽרֶץ) of Nod, on the east of Eden.
- Genesis 6:4 — There were giants in the earth (בָאָרֶץ֮) in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
- Genesis 6:5 — And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth (בָּאָ֑רֶץ), and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Genesis 6:6 — And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth (בָּאָ֑רֶץ), and it grieved him at his heart.
- Genesis 6:11 — The earth (הָאָ֖רֶץ) also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- Genesis 6:11 — The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth (הָאָ֖רֶץ) was filled with violence.
- Genesis 6:12 — And God looked upon the earth (הָאָ֖רֶץ), and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
- Genesis 6:12 — And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth (הָאָֽרֶץ).
- Genesis 6:13 — And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth (הָאָ֛רֶץ) is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Genesis 6:13 — And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth (הָאָֽרֶץ).
- Genesis 6:17 — And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth (הָאָ֔רֶץ), to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
- Genesis 6:17 — And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth (בָּאָ֖רֶץ) shall die.
- Genesis 7:3 — Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth (הָאָֽרֶץ).
- Genesis 7:4 — For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth (הָאָ֔רֶץ) forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
- Genesis 7:6 — And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth (הָאָֽרֶץ).
- Genesis 7:10 — And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth (הָאָֽרֶץ).
- Genesis 7:12 — And the rain was upon the earth (הָאָ֑רֶץ) forty days and forty nights.
- Genesis 7:14 — They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth (הָאָ֖רֶץ) after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
- Genesis 7:17 — And the flood was forty days upon the earth (הָאָ֑רֶץ); and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.