Original: γῆ

Transliteration: gē

Phonetic: ghay

Short Definition: Country

- Original: γῆ

- Transliteration: Ge

- Phonetic: ghay

- Definition:

1. arable land

2. the ground, the earth as a standing place

3. the main land as opposed to the sea or water

4. the earth as a whole

a. the earth as opposed to the heavens

b. the inhabited earth, the abode of men and animals

5. a country, land enclosed within fixed boundaries, a tract of land, territory, region

- Origin: contracted from a root word

- TDNT entry: 12:17,1

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: Contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application): - country earth (-ly) ground land world.

Cognate: G1919