Land
EH-retz
Meanings
About “Land” in Hebrew
Example
Gematria of “Land” (ארץ)
In Hebrew numerology (gematria), each letter has a numerical value. The word ארץ (EH-retz) has a gematria value of 1101.
“Land” in the Bible
Verses from the Torah and Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) mentioning “land”.
השאפים על עפר ארץ בראש דלים ודרך ענוים יטו ואיש ואביו ילכו אל הנערה למען חלל את שם קדשי
[Ah,] you who trample the heads of the poor Into the dust of the ground, And make the humble walk a twisted course! as equivalent to shaphim . Emendation yields: “Who crush on the ground / The heads of the poor, / And push off the road / The humble of the land”; cf. Job 24.4. Father and son go to the same woman, And thereby profane My holy name.
ואנכי העליתי אתכם מארץ מצרים ואולך אתכם במדבר ארבעים שנה לרשת את ארץ האמרי
And I Brought you up from the land of Egypt And led you through the wilderness forty years, To possess the land of the Amorite!
שמעו את הדבר הזה אשר דבר יהוה עליכם בני ישראל על כל המשפחה אשר העליתי מארץ מצרים לאמר
Hear this word, O people of Israel, That GOD has spoken concerning you, Concerning the whole family that I brought up from the land of Egypt:
English translation: THE JPS TANAKH, Revised Edition (2023) © Jewish Publication Society, via Sefaria. CC BY-NC 4.0
This word starts with the Hebrew letter alef.
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