Genesis 2:5
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
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And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Read in context →But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
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ʼerets · eh'-rets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
Strong's KJV usage: × common, country, earth, field, ground, land, × natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Strong's first: Genesis 18:2Strong's last: Zechariah 8:12
Open full H776 profile →ʼădâmâh · ad-aw-maw'
soil (from its general redness)
Strong's KJV usage: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
Strong's first: Genesis 2:5Strong's last: Malachi 3:11
Open full H127 profile →gē · ghay
soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application)
Strong's KJV usage: :--country, earth(-ly), ground, land, world.
Strong's first: Matthew 10:29Strong's last: Acts 7:33
Open full G1093 profile →sâdeh · saw-deh'
a field (as flat)
Strong's KJV usage: country, field, ground, land, soil, × wild.
Strong's first: Joshua 24:32Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 11:13
Open full H7704 profile →ṭâchan · taw-khan'
to grind meal; hence, to be a concubine (that being their employment)
Strong's KJV usage: grind(-er).
Strong's first: Exodus 32:20Strong's last: Deuteronomy 9:21
Open full H2912 profile →petrṓdēs · pet-ro'-dace
rock-like, i.e. rocky
Strong's KJV usage: :--stony.
Strong's first: Mark 4:5Strong's last: Mark 4:16
Open full G4075 profile →chamaí · kham-ah'-ee
earthward, i.e. prostrate
Strong's KJV usage: :--on (to) the ground.
Strong's first: John 9:6Strong's last: John 18:6
Open full G5476 profile →chârâbâh · khaw-raw-baw'
a desert
Strong's KJV usage: dry (ground, land).
Strong's first: Joshua 3:17Strong's last: Joshua 3:17
Open full H2724 profile →nîyr · neer
properly, plowing, i.e. (concretely) freshly plowed land
Strong's KJV usage: fallow ground, plowing, tillage.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 4:3Strong's last: Hosea 10:12
Open full H5215 profile →agrós · ag-ros'
a field (as a drive for cattle); genitive case, the country; specially, a farm, i.e. hamlet
Strong's KJV usage: :--country, farm, piece of ground, land.
Strong's first: Luke 14:18Strong's last: Luke 14:18
Open full G68 profile →edaphízō · ed-af-id'-zo
to raze
Strong's KJV usage: :--lay even with the ground.
Strong's first: Luke 19:44Strong's last: Luke 19:44
Open full G1474 profile →édaphos · ed'-af-os
a basis (bottom), i.e. the soil
Strong's KJV usage: :--ground.
Strong's first: Acts 22:7Strong's last: Acts 22:7
Open full G1475 profile →hedraíōma · hed-rah'-yo-mah
a support, i.e. (figuratively) basis
Strong's KJV usage: :--ground.
Strong's first: 1 Timothy 3:15Strong's last: 1 Timothy 3:15
Open full G1477 profile →chṓra · kho'-rah
room, i.e. a space of territory (more or less extensive; often including its inhabitants)
Strong's KJV usage: :--coast, county, fields, ground, land, region.
Strong's first: Luke 12:16Strong's last: Luke 12:16
Open full G5561 profile →chōríon · kho-ree'-on
a spot or plot of ground
Strong's KJV usage: :--field, land, parcel of ground, place, possession.
Strong's first: John 4:5Strong's last: John 4:5
Open full G5564 profile →chelqâh · khel-kaw'
properly, smoothness; figuratively, flattery; also an allotment
Strong's KJV usage: field, flattering(-ry), ground, parcel, part, piece of land (ground), plat, portion, slippery place, smooth (thing).
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 23:12Strong's last: 2 Samuel 23:12
Open full H2513 profile →chârîysh · khaw-reesh'
ploughing or its season
Strong's KJV usage: earing (time), ground.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 8:12Strong's last: 1 Samuel 8:12
Open full H2758 profile →yabbâshâh · yab-baw-shaw'
dry ground
Strong's KJV usage: dry (ground, land).
Strong's first: Isaiah 44:3Strong's last: Isaiah 44:3
Open full H3004 profile →ʻâphâr · aw-fawr'
dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud
Strong's KJV usage: ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.
Strong's first: Job 14:8Strong's last: Job 14:8
Open full H6083 profile →tsimmâʼôwn · tsim-maw-one'
a thirsty place, i.e. desert
Strong's KJV usage: drought, dry ground, thirsty land.
Strong's first: Psalms 107:33Strong's last: Psalms 107:33
Open full H6774 profile →shârâb · shaw-rawb'
quivering glow (of the air), especially the mirage
Strong's KJV usage: heat, parched ground.
Strong's first: Isaiah 35:7Strong's last: Isaiah 35:7
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And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
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GROUND, noun
1. The surface of land or upper part of the earth, without reference to the materials which compose it. We apply ground to soil, sand or gravel indifferently, but never apply it to the whole mass of the earth or globe, nor to any portion of it when removed. We never say a shovel full or a load of ground We say under ground but not under earth; and we speak of the globe as divided into land and water, not into ground and water. Yet ground earth and land are often used synonymously. We say, the produce or fruits of the ground of the earth, or of land. The water overflows the low ground or the low land.
There was not a man to till the ground Genesis 2:5.
The ground shall give its increase. Zechariah 8:12.
The fire ran along on the ground Exodus 9:23.
2. Region; territory; as Egyptian ground; British ground; heavenly ground
3. Land; estate; possession.
Thy next design is on thy neighbor's grounds.
4. The surface of the earth, or a floor or pavement.
Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground 1 Samuel 5:4.
5. Foundation; that which supports any thing. This argument stands on defensible ground Hence,
6. Fundamental cause; primary reason or original principle. He stated the grounds of his complaint.
Making happiness the ground of his unhappiness.
7. First principles; as the grounds of religion.
8. In painting, the surface on which a figure or object is represented; that surface or substance which retains the original color, and to which the other colors are applied to make the representation; as crimson on a white ground
9. In manufactures, the principal color, to which others are considered as ornamental.
10. Grounds, plural, the bottom of liquors; dregs; lees; feces; as coffee grounds; the grounds of strong beer.
11. The plain song; the tune on which descants are raised.
On that ground I'll build a holy descant.
12. In etching, a gummous composition spread over the surface of the metal to be etched, to prevent the nitric acid from eating, except where the ground is opened with the point of a needle.
13. Field or place of action. He fought with fury, and would not quit the ground
14. In music, the name given to a composition in which the base, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a continually varying melody.
15. The foil to set a thing off.
16. Formerly, the pit of a play house.
To gain ground to advance; to proceed forward in conflict; as, an army in battle gains ground Hence, to obtain an advantage; to have some success; as, the army gains ground on the enemy. Hence,
1. To gain credit; to prevail; to become more general or extensive; as, the opinion gains ground
To lose ground to retire; to retreat; to withdraw from the position taken. Hence, to lose advantage. Hence,
1. To lose credit; to decline; to become less in force or extent.
To give ground to recede; to yield advantage.
get ground and to gather ground are seldom used.
GROUND, verb transitive To lay or set on the ground
1. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, cause, reason or principle; as arguments grounded on reason; faith grounded on scriptural evidence.
2. To settle in first principles; to fix firmly.
Being rooted and grounded in love Ephesians 3:17.
GROUND, verb intransitive To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed; as, the ship grounded in two fathoms of water.
GROUND, preterit tense and participle passive of grind.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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