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 35:34: "Defile not therefore the land which shall inhabit, wherein"
Numbers 36:2: "my lord the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel:"
Deuteronomy 1:5: "On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began to declare"
Deuteronomy 1:7: "and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great"
Deuteronomy 1:8: "Behold, I have set the land before and possess"
Deuteronomy 1:8: "and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers,"
Deuteronomy 1:21: "thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as"
Deuteronomy 1:22: "before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what"
Deuteronomy 1:25: "And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down us, and brought"
Deuteronomy 1:25: "us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God"
Deuteronomy 1:27: "Because the LORD hated out of the land out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand"
Deuteronomy 1:35: "see that good land, which I swore to give unto your fathers,"
Deuteronomy 1:36: "it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because"
Deuteronomy 2:5: "with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth;"
Deuteronomy 2:9: "for I will not give thee of their land thee of their land for a possession; because I have given"
Deuteronomy 2:12: "in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD"
Deuteronomy 2:19: "with them: for I will not give thee of the land thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession;"
Deuteronomy 2:20: "( That also was accounted a land of giants: dwelt therein in old time;"
Deuteronomy 2:24: "the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle."
Deuteronomy 2:27: "Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the highway, I will neither unto the right hand"
Deuteronomy 2:29: "I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God"
Deuteronomy 2:31: "Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit"
Deuteronomy 2:31: "to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land."
Deuteronomy 2:37: "Only unto the land of the children of Ammon not, nor unto any"
Deuteronomy 3:2: "I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst"
Deuteronomy 3:8: "of the two of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan,"
Deuteronomy 3:12: "And this land, which we possessed at that time, which"
Deuteronomy 3:13: "Bashan, which was called the land of giants."
Deuteronomy 3:18: "hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before"
Deuteronomy 3:20: "as well as unto you, and until they possess the land which the LORD your God"
Deuteronomy 3:24: "what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?"
Deuteronomy 3:25: "and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that"
Deuteronomy 3:28: "and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see."
Deuteronomy 4:1: "and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers"
Deuteronomy 4:5: "me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go"
Deuteronomy 4:14: "and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over"
Deuteronomy 4:17: "of any beast that is on the earth, of any winged fowl"
Deuteronomy 4:18: "that is in the waters beneath the earth:"
Deuteronomy 4:21: "and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God"
Deuteronomy 4:22: "I must die in this land, go over Jordan:"
Deuteronomy 4:22: "that good land."
Deuteronomy 4:25: "and children's children, in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness"
Deuteronomy 4:26: "I call heaven and earth to witness that ye shall soon"
Deuteronomy 4:26: "ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto"
Deuteronomy 4:32: "created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto"
Deuteronomy 4:36: "his voice, thee: and upon earth he showed thee his great fire;"
Deuteronomy 4:38: "thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day."
Deuteronomy 4:39: "in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none"
Deuteronomy 4:43: "Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites;"
Deuteronomy 4:46: "in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who"
