ara · earth, land

What it means

ara (אֲרַע) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “earth, land”.

(Aramaic). Related to the Hebrew "erets".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The ground and the inhabited world, above all as the place where kingdoms rule.
2. Of less worth or power than something else.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• earth ×19
• ground ×1
• lower than you ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Ezra×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Daniel×19

• Ezra 5:11

  And thus they returned an answer to us, saying: ‘We are the servants of the Elah of the heavens and the earth, and we are building the house that was built many years before this; and a great king of Israel built it and finished it.

• Jeremiah 10:11

  Thus you shall say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”

• Daniel 2:35

  Then were crushed all together the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, and they became like the chaff of the threshing floors of summer; and the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled all the earth.

• Daniel 2:39

  And after you will arise another kingdom lower than you, and another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.

• Daniel 4:1

  King Nebuchadnezzar, to all the peoples, nations, and languages that live in all the earth: May your peace increase!

• Daniel 4:10

  And these were the visions of my head on my bed: I was looking, and look, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.

• Daniel 4:11

  The tree grew and became strong, and its height reached to the heavens, and its visibility to the end of all the earth.

• Daniel 4:15

  But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals be his portion in the grass of the earth.

• Daniel 4:20

  The tree that you saw, which grew and became strong, and whose height reached to the heavens, and its visibility to all the earth,

• Daniel 4:22

  it is you, O king, who have grown and become strong, and your greatness has grown and reached to the heavens, and your dominion to the end of the earth.

• Daniel 4:23

  And as for what the king saw, a watcher and a holy one coming down from the heavens and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals of the field be his portion, until seven times pass over him’:

• Daniel 4:35

  And all the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing, and according to his will he does among the army of the heavens and the inhabitants of the earth; and there is no one who can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

• Daniel 6:25

  Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages that live in all the earth: “May your peace increase!

• Daniel 6:27

  He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, he who delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.”

• Daniel 7:4

  The first was like a lion and had wings of an eagle. I was looking until its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on feet like a man, and the heart of a man was given to it.

• Daniel 7:17

  ‘These great beasts, which are four, are four kings who will arise from the earth.

• Daniel 7:23

  Thus he said: ‘The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on the earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms, and it will devour all the earth and trample it and crush it.

And 4 more times.