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Deuteronomy 8:9
“A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H776 · Hebrew
- Definition
- the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
- Derivation
- from an unused root probably meaning to be firm;
- KJV renderings
- [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.
- Grammar
- אֶ֗רֶץ — common noun, both genders, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 2,505 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 1:1Genesis 1:2Genesis 1:10Genesis 1:11Genesis 1:11
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אֶרֶץ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.