Gematria of Earth
7 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “earth” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 2,879 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 7
- Occurrences
- 2,879
- Distinct values
- 7
The 7 Hebrew words rendered “earth”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:1בראשית א:אהָאָֽרֶץ
soil (from its general redness)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:25בראשית א:כההָֽאֲדָמָה
dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud
First appearance ·Genesis 2:7בראשית ב:זעָפָר
the earth; by implication (figuratively) low
First appearance ·Jeremiah 10:11ירמיהו י:יאמֵֽאַרְעָא
a piece of pottery
First appearance ·Leviticus 6:21ויקרא ו:כאחֶרֶשׂ
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of earth?
The Tanakh renders “earth” with 7 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: ארץ = 291, אדמה = 50, עפר = 350, and 4 more.
How do you say earth in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 7 Hebrew words for “earth”; the most frequent are ארץ (ʼerets), 2,504 times; אדמה (ʼădâmâh), 225 times; עפר (ʻâphâr), 110 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.