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 12:7: "And these are the kings of the country which Joshua of Israel smote"
Joshua 13:1: "and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed."
Joshua 13:2: "This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders and all Geshuri,"
Joshua 13:4: "From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah is beside the Sidonians,"
Joshua 13:5: " And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising,"
Joshua 13:7: "therefore divide this land unto the nine tribes, and the half"
Joshua 13:21: "which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country."
Joshua 13:25: "the cities and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer"
Joshua 14:1: "the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest,"
Joshua 14:4: "no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell"
Joshua 14:5: "did, and they divided the land."
Joshua 14:7: "me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as"
Joshua 14:9: "day, saying, the land whereon thy feet have trodden"
Joshua 14:15: "which Arba was a great among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war."
Joshua 15:19: "for thou hast given land; give me also springs of water. And he gave"
Joshua 17:5: "portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which"
Joshua 17:6: "and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead."
Joshua 17:8: "Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah the border of Manasseh"
Joshua 17:12: "would dwell in that land."
Joshua 17:15: "then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if"
Joshua 17:16: "for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who"
Joshua 18:1: "the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before"
Joshua 18:3: "slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God"
Joshua 18:4: "and I will send and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come"
Joshua 18:6: "Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven and bring the description hither"
Joshua 18:8: "them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land,"
Joshua 18:8: "saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here"
Joshua 18:9: "And the men went and passed through the land, and described into seven parts"
Joshua 18:10: "Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions."
Joshua 19:49: "When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel"
Joshua 19:51: "So they made an end of dividing the country."
Joshua 21:2: "And they spoke unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The LORD commanded"
Joshua 21:43: "unto Israel all the land which he swore to give unto their fathers;"
Joshua 22:4: "ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant"
Joshua 22:9: "the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go"
Joshua 22:9: "which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to"
Joshua 22:9: "to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof"
Joshua 22:10: "the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children"
Joshua 22:11: "an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders"
Joshua 22:13: "tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son"
Joshua 22:15: "tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,"
Joshua 22:19: "Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, unto the land"
Joshua 22:19: "be unclean, unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD's"
Joshua 22:32: "of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land out of the land of Gilead,"
Joshua 22:32: "the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan,"
Joshua 22:33: "against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben"
Joshua 23:5: "them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD"
Joshua 23:14: "am going the way the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all"
Joshua 23:16: "quickly from off the good land which he hath given"
Joshua 24:3: "of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied"
