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:
Judges 18:2: "of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land,"
Judges 18:2: "the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land:"
Judges 18:7: "and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they"
Judges 18:9: "them: for the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye"
Judges 18:9: "to go, and to enter to possess the land."
Judges 18:10: "a people secure, land: for God hath given it into your hands;"
Judges 18:10: "of any thing that is in the earth."
Judges 18:14: "that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren,"
Judges 18:17: "that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took"
Judges 18:30: "until the day of the captivity of the land."
Judges 19:30: "from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land out of the land of Egypt unto"
Judges 20:1: "from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD"
Judges 20:21: "out of Gibeah, to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty"
Judges 20:25: "day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen"
Judges 21:12: "and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan."
Judges 21:21: "of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin."
Ruth 1:1: "ruled, that there was in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah"
Ruth 1:7: "and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah."
Ruth 2:10: "on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, unto him, Why have I found"
Ruth 2:11: "and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people"
1 Samuel 2:8: "and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set"
1 Samuel 2:10: "them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt"
1 Samuel 3:19: "of his words fall to the ground."
1 Samuel 4:5: "shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang"
1 Samuel 5:3: "behold, Dagon upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD."
1 Samuel 5:4: "behold, Dagon upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD;"
1 Samuel 6:5: "of your mice the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel:"
1 Samuel 6:5: "from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land."
1 Samuel 9:4: "mount Ephraim, and passed through the land but they found them not: then they passed through"
1 Samuel 9:4: "but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land"
1 Samuel 9:4: "of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not."
1 Samuel 9:5: "And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul to his servant that"
1 Samuel 9:16: "about this time I will send thee a man out of the land out of the land and thou shalt anoint him to be captain"
1 Samuel 12:6: "brought your fathers up out of the land up out of the land of Egypt."
1 Samuel 13:3: "blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear."
1 Samuel 13:7: "went over Jordan to the land and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet"
1 Samuel 13:17: "unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:"
1 Samuel 13:19: "blacksmith found throughout all the land for the Philistines said,"
1 Samuel 14:15: "they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling."
1 Samuel 14:25: "And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was upon"
1 Samuel 14:29: "My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes"
1 Samuel 14:32: "and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with"
1 Samuel 14:45: "one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with"
1 Samuel 17:46: "day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know"
1 Samuel 17:46: "of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is"
1 Samuel 17:49: "into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth."
1 Samuel 20:41: "out of a place toward and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times:"
1 Samuel 21:11: "David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances,"
1 Samuel 22:5: "in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came"
1 Samuel 23:23: "with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out"
