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 24:8: "And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt Jordan; and they fought"
Joshua 24:8: "them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before"
Joshua 24:13: "And I have given you a land for which ye did not labor, which ye built"
Joshua 24:15: "the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house,"
Joshua 24:17: "he it is that brought out of the land out of the land of Egypt, from the house"
Joshua 24:18: "all even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve"
Judges 1:2: "behold, the land into his hand."
Judges 1:15: "for thou hast given land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb"
Judges 1:26: "And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built and called the name"
Judges 1:27: "would dwell in that land."
Judges 1:32: "among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out."
Judges 1:33: "among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became"
Judges 2:1: "I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I swore"
Judges 2:2: "league with the inhabitants land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed"
Judges 2:6: "unto his inheritance to possess the land."
Judges 2:12: "God of their fathers, of the land of the land of Egypt, and followed"
Judges 3:11: " And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel of Kenaz died."
Judges 3:25: "their lord was fallen down dead on the earth."
Judges 3:30: "under of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years."
Judges 4:21: "the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died."
Judges 5:4: "of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field the earth trembled, and"
Judges 5:31: "him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years."
Judges 6:4: "them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left"
Judges 6:5: "were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy"
Judges 6:9: "you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land;"
Judges 6:10: "the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed"
Judges 6:37: "and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save"
Judges 6:39: "the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew."
Judges 6:40: "dew on all the ground."
Judges 8:28: "their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days"
Judges 9:37: "by the middle of the land, and another company"
Judges 10:4: "this day, which are in the land of Gilead."
Judges 10:8: "of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead."
Judges 11:3: "from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain"
Judges 11:5: "to fetch Jephthah out of the land out of the land of Tob:"
Judges 11:12: "thou art come against me to fight in my land?"
Judges 11:13: "Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon"
Judges 11:15: "Israel the land of Moab, nor the land of the children"
Judges 11:15: "the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:"
Judges 11:17: "saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken"
Judges 11:18: "through the wilderness, and compassed the land and the land of Moab, and came"
Judges 11:18: "the land and the land of Moab, and came by the east side"
Judges 11:18: "of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched"
Judges 11:19: "said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place."
Judges 11:21: "possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country."
Judges 11:21: "of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country."
Judges 12:12: "died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun."
Judges 12:15: "died, in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites."
Judges 13:20: "looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground."
Judges 16:24: "our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many"
