ארץ

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

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈeʁet͡s/
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): [ˈɛ.ɾɛt͡s], [ˈɛ.ʁɛt͡s]
• (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈeres/, [ˈeɾes]
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔæræsˤ/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): [ˈʔɛːrˤɛsˤ]
• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʔarsˤ/

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אֶרֶץ • ('éretz) f (plural indefinite אֲרָצוֹת, singular construct אֶרֶץ־, plural construct אַרְצוֹת־, Biblical Hebrew pausal form אָרֶץ) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. country, land
2. territory, district, region
3. earth, Earth
   • 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'áretz)

• אַרְצִי ('artsí)
• חוּץ לָאָרֶץ (khutz la'áretz)
• 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