אֲרַע
ʼăraʻ · H772 · Aramaic · 21 occurrences
Meanings
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earth
The earth as opposed to the sky; sometimes used in a more specific sense to denote part of the earth, such as the dry land as opposed to the sea, or a specific region, area, country, or plot of land
ExamplesJeremiah 10:11 This is what you shall say to them: “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
Daniel 2:35 “Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed to pieces all at the same time, and they were like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the entire earth.
Daniel 2:39 “And after you another kingdom will arise inferior to you, then another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.
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inferior
Literally: earth; hence: state in which an entity is inferior in status to other entities
ExamplesDaniel 2:39 “And after you another kingdom will arise inferior to you, then another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.
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heaven and earth, universe
A more or less fixed phrase: the heavens and the earth, equivalent to a single lexical item: the totality of God's creation
ExamplesEzra 5:11 “So they answered us as follows, saying, ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.
Daniel 6:27 “He rescues, saves, and performs signs and miracles In heaven and on earth, He who has also rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַלְכוּkingdom, reign 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֲכַלaccuse 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חֲזוֹתsight 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
11 occurrences in 3 groups
- בin/on/with 12
- מִןfrom 5
- לto/for 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
7 occurrences in 5 groups
- דּוּרdwell 2
- סוֹףend 2
- גַּוmidst 1
- אֱלָהּGod, god 1
- עֶשֶׂבgrass 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Land001002002
- Daniel 4:1 opens Nebuchadnezzar's proclamation, “Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples, nations, and populations of all languages who live in all the earth: May your peace be great!”
- Insignificant002001002015
- Daniel 2:39 says of the kingdoms of the statue, “after you another kingdom will arise inferior to you, then another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H772. ara [אֲרַע]21 noun [feminine] earth (so ᵑ7 Syriac; = Biblical Hebrew אֶרֶץ, q. v.);…
[אֲרַע]21 noun [feminine] earth (so ᵑ7 Syriac; = Biblical Hebrew אֶרֶץ, q. v.); — emphatic אַרְעָא Dan 2:35, Dan 2:39 Dan 2:16t. Daniel; Ezr 5:11; Jer 10:11b; אַ֫רְעָא (D§§ 9, 5 a; 44, 1 n) = אֲרַע + ָ֯ of direction, earthward, i.e. downward, מִנָּח אַרְעָא Dan 2:39 Kt lower than thou, i.e. inferior to thee Qr אֲרַע (compare מִן אֲרַע ᵑ7 Rth 4:4); — Jer 10:11a see [ אֲרַק].
[אֲרַק] noun [feminine] earth (= [אֲרַע]; ארקא Egyptian Aramaic S-CPap. B 15 + often (sometimes also ארעא, as ib.16), Nineveh and Babylonian Aramaic Cooke192, also Mandean NöM§ 66, Zinjirli, Lzb227 Cooke166 (compare 183); עק֑, as Zinjirli רצהר֑קי מוצאמ֑וקא,, Cooke166, 185; compare K§ 7, 2 and anm. i and references, Cooke185 NöZMG xivii (1893), 100; M § 66 GunkSchöpf. 18 LzbEph. I. 223 SACJQ, 1903-4, 273); — emphatic אַרְקָא Jer 10:11a.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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