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Strong's #776: 'erets (pronounced eh'-rets)

from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land):--X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'erets

1) land, earth

1a) earth

1a1) whole earth (as opposed to a part)

1a2) earth (as opposed to heaven)

1a3) earth (inhabitants)

1b) land

1b1) country, territory

1b2) district, region

1b3) tribal territory

1b4) piece of ground

1b5) land of Canaan, Israel

1b6) inhabitants of land

1b7) Sheol, land without return, (under) world

1b8) city (-state)

1c) ground, surface of the earth

1c1) ground

1c2) soil

1d) (in phrases)

1d1) people of the land

1d2) space or distance of country (in measurements of distance)

1d3) level or plain country

1d4) land of the living

1d5) end(s) of the earth

1e) (almost wholly late in usage)

1e1) lands, countries

1e1a) often in contrast to Canaan

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm



Usage:

This word is used 2505 times:

Leviticus 11:29: "unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,"
Leviticus 11:41: "creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth it shall not be eaten."
Leviticus 11:42: "creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they"
Leviticus 11:44: "of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."
Leviticus 11:45: "I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land out of the land to be"
Leviticus 11:46: "creature that creepeth upon the earth:"
Leviticus 14:34: "When ye be come into the land of Canaan, I give"
Leviticus 14:34: "the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;"
Leviticus 16:22: "all unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat"
Leviticus 18:3: "After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, do: and after the doings"
Leviticus 18:3: "do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I"
Leviticus 18:25: " And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon itself vomiteth out"
Leviticus 18:25: "therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants."
Leviticus 18:27: "these abominations of the land done, which were before you, and the land"
Leviticus 18:27: "done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)"
Leviticus 18:28: " That the land spew not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spewed out"
Leviticus 19:9: "And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not the corners"
Leviticus 19:23: "And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted of trees for food,"
Leviticus 19:29: "thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness."
Leviticus 19:29: "the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness."
Leviticus 19:33: "a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, vex"
Leviticus 19:34: "him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD"
Leviticus 19:36: "your God, which brought you out of the land of the land of Egypt."
Leviticus 20:2: "giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land"
Leviticus 20:4: "And if the people of the land do any ways hide from the man,"
Leviticus 20:22: "and all and do them: that the land, whither I bring"
Leviticus 20:24: "will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I"
Leviticus 22:24: "or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land."
Leviticus 22:33: "That brought you out of the land of the land of Egypt, to be your God:"
Leviticus 23:10: "them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap"
Leviticus 23:22: "And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not of the corners of thy field"
Leviticus 23:39: "month, the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast"
Leviticus 23:43: "to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of the land of Egypt: I"
Leviticus 25:2: "them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land"
Leviticus 25:2: "which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD."
Leviticus 25:4: "shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow"
Leviticus 25:5: "for it is a year of rest unto the land."
Leviticus 25:6: "And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger"
Leviticus 25:7: "And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all thereof be meat."
Leviticus 25:9: "shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land."
Leviticus 25:10: "year, and proclaim throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be"
Leviticus 25:18: "them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety."
Leviticus 25:19: " And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, therein in safety."
Leviticus 25:23: " The land shall not be sold forever: for is mine; for ye"
Leviticus 25:23: "be sold forever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners"
Leviticus 25:24: "And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption"
Leviticus 25:24: "of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land."
Leviticus 25:31: "them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee."
Leviticus 25:38: "your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give"
Leviticus 25:38: "of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be"









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