Lexical Summary ara: the earth Original Word: אֲרַעTransliteration: ara Phonetic Spelling: (ar-ah') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: the earth Meaning: the earth, low Strong's Concordance earth, interior (Aramaic) corresponding to 'erets; the earth; by implication (figuratively) low -- earth, interior. see HEBREW 'erets Brown-Driver-Briggs H772. ara [אֲרַע]21 noun [feminine] earth (so ᵑ7 Syriac; = Biblical Hebrew אֶרֶץ, q. v.); — emphatic אַרְעָא Daniel 2:35, 39 16t. Daniel; Ezra 5:11; Jeremiah 10:11b; אַ֫רְעָא (D§§ 9, 5 a; 44, 1 n) = אֲרַע + ָ֯ of direction, earthward, i.e. downward, מִנָּח אַרְעָא Daniel 2:39 Kt lower than thou, i.e. inferior to thee Qr אֲרַע (compare מִן אֲרַע ᵑ7 Ruth 4:4); — Jeremiah 10:11a see [ אֲרַק]. [אֲרַק] noun [feminine] earth (= [אֲרַע]; ארקא Egyptian Aramaic S-CPap. B 15 + often (sometimes also ארעא, as ib.16), Nineveh and Babylonian Aramaic Cooke192, also Mandean NöM§ 66, Zinjirli, Lzb227 Cooke166 (compare 183); עק֑, as Zinjirli רצהר֑קי מוצאמ֑וקא,, Cooke166, 185; compare K§ 7, 2 and anm. i and references, Cooke185 NöZMG xivii (1893), 100; M § 66 GunkSchöpf. 18 LzbEph. I. 223 SACJQ, 1903-4, 273); — emphatic אַרְקָא Jeremiah 10:11a. |