Hebrew word · Strong's H776

אֶרֶץ

ʼerets · eh'-rets · noun · “land, earth, country”

In a sentence

Eretz means land or earth — both the planet God created and the land he promised to his people. It frames Scripture’s story from creation to new earth.

Eretz spans the whole earth, a country, or a particular land. Genesis 1:1 uses it for what God created “in the beginning”; throughout the Pentateuch it names the promised land of Israel.

The Bible’s story is land-shaped: God makes the earth, places people in a land, exiles them from it, brings them back, and at last promises a new heavens and a new eretz. Salvation is finally going to fill the earth.

Strong's reference

Definition: the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

KJV usage: [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.

Reference gloss from Strong's Concordance (1890, public domain).

Key verses BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Psalms 24:1 “The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.” Isaiah 65:17 “For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.”

Original BibleDawn word study. Original-language data and the public-domain Strong's (1890) gloss are referenced; see sources.