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:
Numbers 26:4: "Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land out of the land of Egypt."
Numbers 26:10: " And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together Korah,"
Numbers 26:19: "and Er died in the land of Canaan."
Numbers 26:53: "Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number"
Numbers 26:55: "Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: of the tribes of their fathers"
Numbers 27:12: "Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel."
Numbers 32:1: "of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold,"
Numbers 32:1: "the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place"
Numbers 32:4: " Even the country which the LORD smote before of Israel, is a land"
Numbers 32:4: "before of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:"
Numbers 32:5: "in thy sight, this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over"
Numbers 32:7: "from going over into the land which the LORD hath given"
Numbers 32:8: "them from Kadesh-barnea the land."
Numbers 32:9: "of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children"
Numbers 32:9: "that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given"
Numbers 32:17: "and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land."
Numbers 32:22: " And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward and be guiltless"
Numbers 32:22: "before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession"
Numbers 32:29: "armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give"
Numbers 32:29: "shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:"
Numbers 32:30: "you armed, among you in the land of Canaan."
Numbers 32:32: "armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side"
Numbers 32:33: "of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country"
Numbers 32:33: "with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about."
Numbers 33:1: "of Israel, which out of the land out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand"
Numbers 33:37: "and pitched in mount Hor, of the land of Edom."
Numbers 33:38: "after the children of Israel were come out of the land of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth"
Numbers 33:40: "which dwelt in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children"
Numbers 33:51: "Jordan into the land of Canaan;"
Numbers 33:52: "all the inhabitants of the land you, and destroy"
Numbers 33:53: "And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for you the land"
Numbers 33:53: "therein: for you the land to possess"
Numbers 33:54: "And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: ye shall give the more"
Numbers 33:55: "drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which"
Numbers 33:55: "and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell."
Numbers 34:2: "ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that"
Numbers 34:2: "the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land"
Numbers 34:2: "that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts"
Numbers 34:12: "sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about."
Numbers 34:13: "of Israel, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which"
Numbers 34:17: "which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son"
Numbers 34:18: "And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance."
Numbers 34:29: "unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan."
Numbers 35:10: "be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;"
Numbers 35:14: "and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities"
Numbers 35:28: "the slayer shall return into the land of his possession."
Numbers 35:32: "of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest."
Numbers 35:33: "So ye shall not pollute the land wherein are: for blood"
Numbers 35:33: "it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood"
Numbers 35:33: "defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that"
