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
4a) the earth as opposed to the heavens
4b) the inhabited earth, the abode of men and animals
5) a country, land enclosed within fixed boundaries, a tract of land, territory, region
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Citing in TDNT: 1:677, 116
G1093
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.
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| (ὁ οὐρανὸς καὶ ἡ γῆ) universe | 1.3 |
| a earth | 1.39 |
| b land | 1.60 |
| d region | 1.79 |
| c soil | 2.14 |
| e people | 9.22 |
| (κλίνω τὸ πρόσωπον εἰς τὴν γήν) prostrate oneself | 17.21 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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