Definition

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

Etymology

from an unused root probably meaning to be firm;

Where the KJV renders it

• common
• country
• earth
• field
• ground
• land
• natins
• way
• wilderness
• world

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.