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:
Genesis 7:17: "the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth."
Genesis 7:18: "and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face"
Genesis 7:19: "prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; the high hills,"
Genesis 7:21: "died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every"
Genesis 7:21: "creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:"
Genesis 7:23: "the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained"
Genesis 7:24: "And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred days."
Genesis 8:1: "made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;"
Genesis 8:3: "And the waters returned from off the earth continually:"
Genesis 8:7: "the waters were dried up from off the earth."
Genesis 8:9: "were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in"
Genesis 8:11: "the waters were abated from off the earth."
Genesis 8:13: "the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed"
Genesis 8:14: "and twentieth day was the earth dried."
Genesis 8:17: "and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful,"
Genesis 8:17: "that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon"
Genesis 8:17: "in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth."
Genesis 8:19: "and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark."
Genesis 8:22: "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and heat,"
Genesis 9:1: "and multiply, and replenish the earth."
Genesis 9:2: "upon every of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air,"
Genesis 9:7: "be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth,"
Genesis 9:10: "of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out"
Genesis 9:10: "that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth."
Genesis 9:11: "shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."
Genesis 9:13: "of a covenant between me and the earth."
Genesis 9:14: "when I bring a cloud over the earth, shall be seen in the cloud:"
Genesis 9:16: "flesh that is upon the earth."
Genesis 9:17: "flesh that is upon the earth."
Genesis 9:19: "of Noah: and of them earth overspread."
Genesis 10:5: "By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; after his tongue, after their families,"
Genesis 10:8: "to be a mighty one in the earth."
Genesis 10:10: "and Erech, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar."
Genesis 10:11: "Out of that land went forth Asshur, Nineveh,"
Genesis 10:20: "of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations."
Genesis 10:25: "was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan."
Genesis 10:31: "of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations."
Genesis 10:32: "and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood."
Genesis 11:1: "And the whole earth was of one language, speech."
Genesis 11:2: "from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there."
Genesis 11:4: "upon the face of the whole earth."
Genesis 11:8: "from thence upon the face the earth: and they left off to build"
Genesis 11:9: "did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD"
Genesis 11:9: "did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth."
Genesis 11:28: "before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees."
Genesis 11:31: "them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto"
Genesis 12:1: "unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house,"
Genesis 12:1: "and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land"
Genesis 12:5: "in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came."
Genesis 12:5: "to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came."
