Strong's Concordance H776

Original Word: אֶרֶץ
Transliteration: ʼerets
Phonetic Spelling: eh'-rets
from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land); × common, country, earth, field, ground, land, × natins, way, + wilderness, world.

Usages throughout the bible

Genesis 42:29 - And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land H776 of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,

Genesis 42:30 - The man, who is the lord of the land, H776 spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. H776

Genesis 42:32 - We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land H776 of Canaan.

Genesis 42:33 - And the man, the lord of the country, H776 said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:

Genesis 42:34 - And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land. H776

Genesis 43:1 - And the famine was sore in the land. H776

Genesis 43:11 - And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land H776 in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:

Genesis 43:26 - And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth. H776

Genesis 44:8 - Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land H776 of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?

Genesis 44:11 - Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, H776 and opened every man his sack.

Genesis 44:14 - And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground. H776

Genesis 45:6 - For these two years hath the famine been in the land: H776 and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

Genesis 45:7 - And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, H776 and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Genesis 45:8 - So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land H776 of Egypt.

Genesis 45:10 - And thou shalt dwell in the land H776 of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:

Genesis 45:17 - And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land H776 of Canaan;

Genesis 45:18 - And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land H776 of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. H776

Genesis 45:19 - Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land H776 of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

Genesis 45:20 - Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land H776 of Egypt is yours.

Genesis 45:25 - And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land H776 of Canaan unto Jacob their father,

Genesis 45:26 - And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land H776 of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.

Genesis 46:6 - And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land H776 of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:

Genesis 46:12 - And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land H776 of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.

Genesis 46:20 - And unto Joseph in the land H776 of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.

Genesis 46:28 - And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land H776 of Goshen.

Genesis 46:31 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land H776 of Canaan, are come unto me;

Genesis 46:34 - That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land H776 of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

Genesis 47:1 - Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land H776 of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land H776 of Goshen.

Genesis 47:4 - They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land H776 are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land H776 of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land H776 of Goshen.

Genesis 47:6 - The land H776 of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land H776 make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land H776 of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

Genesis 47:11 - And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land H776 of Egypt, in the best of the land, H776 in the land H776 of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Genesis 47:13 - And there was no bread in all the land; H776 for the famine was very sore, so that the land H776 of Egypt and all the land H776 of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

Genesis 47:14 - And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land H776 of Egypt, and in the land H776 of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

Genesis 47:15 - And when money failed in the land H776 of Egypt, and in the land H776 of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.

Genesis 47:20 - And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land H776 became Pharaoh's.

Genesis 47:27 - And Israel dwelt in the land H776 of Egypt, in the country H776 of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

Genesis 47:28 - And Jacob lived in the land H776 of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

Genesis 48:3 - And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land H776 of Canaan, and blessed me,

Genesis 48:4 - And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land H776 to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

Genesis 48:5 - And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land H776 of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

Genesis 48:7 - And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land H776 of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way H776 to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.

Genesis 48:12 - And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. H776

Genesis 48:16 - The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. H776

Genesis 48:21 - And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land H776 of your fathers.

Genesis 49:15 - And he saw that rest was good, and the land H776 that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.

Genesis 49:30 - In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land H776 of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

Genesis 50:5 - My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land H776 of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

Genesis 50:7 - And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land H776 of Egypt,

Genesis 50:8 - And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land H776 of Goshen.

Genesis 50:11 - And when the inhabitants of the land, H776 the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.