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:
2 Samuel 20:10: "the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab"
2 Samuel 21:14: "and Jonathan his son they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulcher of Kish"
2 Samuel 21:14: "And after that God was entreated for the land."
2 Samuel 22:8: " Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven and shook, because"
2 Samuel 22:43: "Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire and did spread them abroad."
2 Samuel 23:4: "clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain."
2 Samuel 24:6: "Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; to Dan-jaan, and about"
2 Samuel 24:8: "So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem of nine"
2 Samuel 24:13: "years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months"
2 Samuel 24:13: "three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what"
2 Samuel 24:20: "and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground."
2 Samuel 24:25: "and peace offerings. So the LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from"
1 Kings 1:23: "before the king with his face to the ground."
1 Kings 1:31: "Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence and said, Let my lord"
1 Kings 1:40: "and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound"
1 Kings 1:52: "there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found"
1 Kings 2:2: "go the way of all the earth: therefore, and show thyself a man;"
1 Kings 4:10: "in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land"
1 Kings 4:19: "Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, of Sihon king"
1 Kings 4:19: "of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og"
1 Kings 4:19: "and he was the only officer which was in the land."
1 Kings 4:21: "kingdoms from unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt:"
1 Kings 4:34: "of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of"
1 Kings 6:1: "of Israel were come out of the land of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year"
1 Kings 8:9: "the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of the land of Egypt."
1 Kings 8:21: "he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of the land of Egypt."
1 Kings 8:23: "in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest"
1 Kings 8:27: "indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens"
1 Kings 8:36: "and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance."
1 Kings 8:37: "If there be in the land famine, if pestilence, blasting,"
1 Kings 8:37: "if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever"
1 Kings 8:41: "Israel, but cometh out of a far country out of a far country for thy name's sake;"
1 Kings 8:43: "thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear"
1 Kings 8:46: "so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;"
1 Kings 8:47: "Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent,"
1 Kings 8:47: "whither they were carried captives, and repent, unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives,"
1 Kings 8:48: "their heart, and with all in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive,"
1 Kings 8:48: "led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers,"
1 Kings 8:53: "didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest"
1 Kings 8:60: "That all the people of the earth may know the LORD is God,"
1 Kings 9:8: "done thus unto this land, and to this house?"
1 Kings 9:9: "who brought forth their fathers out of the land out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold"
1 Kings 9:11: "Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee."
1 Kings 9:13: "me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day."
1 Kings 9:18: "And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,"
1 Kings 9:19: "in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion."
1 Kings 9:21: "that were left after them in the land, the children of Israel also were not"
1 Kings 9:26: "the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom."
1 Kings 10:6: "that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom."
1 Kings 10:13: "gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants."
