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:
Joshua 1:4: "the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great"
Joshua 1:6: "shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give"
Joshua 1:11: "to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth"
Joshua 1:13: "and hath given you this land."
Joshua 1:14: "your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land Moses gave you on this side"
Joshua 1:15: "also have possessed the land which the LORD your God"
Joshua 1:15: "the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which"
Joshua 2:1: "Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into a harlot's"
Joshua 2:2: "of the children of Israel to search out the country."
Joshua 2:3: "to search out all the country."
Joshua 2:9: "hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon"
Joshua 2:9: "us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of"
Joshua 2:11: "is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath."
Joshua 2:14: "when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with"
Joshua 2:18: "Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line"
Joshua 2:24: "into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country"
Joshua 2:24: "for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of"
Joshua 3:11: "of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan."
Joshua 3:13: "of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters"
Joshua 4:24: "That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD,"
Joshua 5:6: "swore that he would not show them the land, which the LORD swore"
Joshua 5:6: "the LORD swore unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey."
Joshua 5:11: "And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover,"
Joshua 5:12: "on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had"
Joshua 5:12: "of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan"
Joshua 5:14: "fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith"
Joshua 6:22: "men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house,"
Joshua 6:27: "and his fame noised throughout all the country."
Joshua 7:2: "unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up"
Joshua 7:6: "rent his clothes, and fell to the earth his face before the ark"
Joshua 7:9: "For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear and cut off"
Joshua 7:9: "and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great"
Joshua 7:21: "them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under"
Joshua 8:1: "of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:"
Joshua 9:6: "the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: from a far country: now therefore make"
Joshua 9:9: "And they said unto him, From a very far country him, From a very far country thy servants are come"
Joshua 9:11: "Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke us, saying, Take"
Joshua 9:24: "Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all"
Joshua 9:24: "and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore"
Joshua 10:40: "smote all the country and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs,"
Joshua 10:41: "them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon."
Joshua 10:42: "And all these kings and their land did Joshua at one time,"
Joshua 11:3: "and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh."
Joshua 11:16: "all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all"
Joshua 11:16: "and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain"
Joshua 11:22: "There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children only in Gaza,"
Joshua 11:23: "took the whole land, that the LORD said"
Joshua 11:23: "unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war."
Joshua 12:1: "Now these are the kings of the land, which the children smote, and possessed"
Joshua 12:1: "smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun,"
