Lexical Definition

‎אֲרַע‎ ʼăraʻ (ar-ah') earth: soil ^A:N-M
(Aramaic) corresponding to ‎אֶרֶץ‎

earth, interior.

• the earth
• by implication (figuratively) low

1) earth, world, ground

See Greek: ἐλάσσων

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Hebrew form: אֶרֶץ
[‎אֲרַע‎]₂₁ noun [feminine] earth (so ᵑ7 Syriac; = Biblical Hebrew ‎אֶרֶץ‎, q. v.); — emphatic ‎אַרְעָא‎ Dan 2:35; Dan 2:39 + 16 t. Daniel; Ezra 5:11; Jer 10:11b; ‎אַ֫רְעָא‎ (D^{§§ 9, 5 a; 44, 1 n}) = ‎אֲרַע‎ + ‎ָ֯‎ of direction, earthward, i.e. downward, ‎אַרְעָא מִנָּח‎ Dan 2:39 Kt lower than thou, i.e. inferior to thee Qr ‎אֲרַע‎ (compare ᵑ7 ‎אֲרַע מִן‎ Ruth 4:4); — Jer 10:11a see [ ‎אֲרַק‎].

[‎אֲרַק‎] noun [feminine] earth (= [‎אֲרַע‎]; ‎ארקא‎ Egyptian Aramaic S-C^{Pap. B 15} + often (sometimes also ‎ארעא‎, as ib.¹⁶), Nineveh and Babylonian Aramaic Cooke¹⁹², also Mandean Nö^{M§ 66, Zinjirli}, Lzb²²⁷ Cooke¹⁶⁶ (compare 183); ‎עק֑‎, as Zinjirli ‎מוצאמ֑וקא‎, ‎רצהר֑קי‎, Cooke^{166, 185}; compare K^{§ 7, 2 and anm. i and references}, Cooke¹⁸⁵ Nö^{ZMG xivii (1893), 100}; M § 66 Gunk^{Schöpf. 18} Lzb^{Eph. I. 223} SAC^{JQ, 1903-4, 273}); — emphatic ‎אַרְקָא‎ Jer 10:11a.

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