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:
1 Samuel 23:27: "for the Philistines have invaded the land."
1 Samuel 24:8: "behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself."
1 Samuel 25:23: "David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,"
1 Samuel 25:41: "And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, let thine handmaid be a servant"
1 Samuel 26:7: "within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay"
1 Samuel 26:8: "therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time."
1 Samuel 26:20: "therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth the face of the LORD:"
1 Samuel 27:1: "for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair"
1 Samuel 27:8: "for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest"
1 Samuel 27:8: "nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt."
1 Samuel 27:9: "And David smote the land, and left man nor woman"
1 Samuel 28:3: "had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. out of the land."
1 Samuel 28:9: "those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life,"
1 Samuel 28:13: "gods ascending out of the earth."
1 Samuel 28:14: "and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself."
1 Samuel 28:20: "fell straightway all along on the earth, afraid, because of the words"
1 Samuel 28:23: "him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, from the earth, and sat upon the bed."
1 Samuel 29:11: "in the morning, into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel."
1 Samuel 30:16: "they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing,"
1 Samuel 30:16: "the great spoil that they had taken out of the land out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land"
1 Samuel 30:16: "that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land and out of the land of Judah."
1 Samuel 31:9: "and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house"
2 Samuel 1:2: "when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance."
2 Samuel 2:22: "from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face"
2 Samuel 3:12: "saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with"
2 Samuel 4:11: "of your hand, and take you away from the earth?"
2 Samuel 5:6: "unto the inhabitants of the land: which spoke unto David, saying, Except"
2 Samuel 7:9: "thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth."
2 Samuel 7:23: "And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, whom God"
2 Samuel 7:23: "and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which"
2 Samuel 8:2: "and measured them with a line, to the ground; even with two lines measured"
2 Samuel 10:2: "And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon."
2 Samuel 12:16: "and went in, and lay all night upon the earth."
2 Samuel 12:17: "and went to him, to raise him up the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat"
2 Samuel 12:20: "Then David arose from the earth, from the earth, and washed, and anointed his apparel,"
2 Samuel 13:31: "his garments, on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes"
2 Samuel 14:4: "on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king."
2 Samuel 14:11: "one hair of thy son fall to the earth."
2 Samuel 14:14: "we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, cannot be gathered up"
2 Samuel 14:20: "all things that are in the earth."
2 Samuel 14:22: "And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and thanked"
2 Samuel 14:33: "and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed"
2 Samuel 15:4: "moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath"
2 Samuel 15:23: "And all the country wept with a loud voice, the people passed over:"
2 Samuel 17:26: "So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead."
2 Samuel 18:8: "over of all the country: and the wood devoured more people"
2 Samuel 18:9: "and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away."
2 Samuel 18:11: "didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a"
2 Samuel 18:28: "the king, And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed"
2 Samuel 19:9: "us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for"
