Original Language Studio
Leviticus 26:43
“The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.” (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
- וְ — conjunction
- הָ — particle (definite article)
- אָרֶץ֩ — 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.