ארץ

From Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́-. Compare Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ) and Aramaic אַרְעָא.

• (Proto-Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʔart͡sˤ/
• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʔarsˤ/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔɛrɛsˤ/,
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔarasˤ/,
• (Persian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)eres/
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈɛʁ̞ɛt͡s/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)eʁ̞et͡s/

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אֶרֶץ • (érets) f (plural indefinite אֲרָצוֹת, singular construct אֶרֶץ־, plural construct אַרְצוֹת־, Biblical Hebrew pausal form אָרֶץ)

1. country, land
2. territory, district, region
3. Earth (the third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live)
   • Tanach, Genesis 1:1, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ׃

     b'reshít bará elohím 'ét hashamáyim v'ét ha'árets.

     In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

4. ground, soil
5. (definite, popular) Israel

• The definite form of this noun is הָאָרֶץ (ha'árets).

• (ground): אֲדָמָה (adamá)
• (Earth): כַּדּוּר הָאָרֶץ (kadúr ha'árets)

• אַרְצִי (artsí)
• חוּץ לָאָרֶץ (khuts la'árets)
• אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל (érets yisra'él)
• אַרְצוֹת הַבְּרִית (ar'tsót hab'rít)
• דֶּרֶךְ אֶרֶץ (dérekh érets)
• עַם הָאָרֶץ (am ha'árets)

• מְדִינָה (m'diná)
• (planets of the Solar System) חַמָּה (khamá), נוגה / נֹגַהּ (nógah), אֶרֶץ (érets), מַאֲדִים (ma'adím), צֶדֶק (tsédek), שַׁבְּתַאי (shabtá'i), אוּרָנוּס (uránus) or אוֹרוֹן (orón), נֶפטוּן (néptun) or רַהַב (raháv)

• H776 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible