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 Kings 10:15: "of the spice merchants, and of all of Arabia, and of the governors of the country."
1 Kings 10:23: "Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth and for wisdom."
1 Kings 10:24: "And all the earth sought to to hear"
1 Kings 11:18: "which gave him a house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land."
1 Kings 11:21: "Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country."
1 Kings 11:22: "thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise."
1 Kings 12:28: "thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land thee up out of the land of Egypt."
1 Kings 14:24: "And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did the abominations of the nations"
1 Kings 15:12: "And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols"
1 Kings 15:20: "Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali."
1 Kings 17:7: "there had been no rain in the land."
1 Kings 18:5: "unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water,"
1 Kings 18:6: "So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab one way"
1 Kings 18:42: "the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,"
1 Kings 20:7: "called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see"
1 Kings 20:27: "but the Syrians filled the country."
1 Kings 22:36: "his city, and every man to his own country."
1 Kings 22:46: "Asa, he took out of the land."
2 Kings 2:15: "Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground"
2 Kings 2:19: "seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren."
2 Kings 3:20: "water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water."
2 Kings 3:27: "and they departed from him, and returned to their own land."
2 Kings 4:37: "at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out."
2 Kings 4:38: "came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; of the prophets were sitting before"
2 Kings 5:2: "had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land out of the land a little maid;"
2 Kings 5:4: "said the maid that is of the land is of the land of Israel."
2 Kings 5:15: "there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now"
2 Kings 5:19: "in peace. So he departed from him a little way."
2 Kings 6:23: "came no more into the land of Israel."
2 Kings 8:1: "and it shall also come upon the land seven years."
2 Kings 8:2: "went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years."
2 Kings 8:3: "end, that the woman out of the land out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth"
2 Kings 8:6: "since the day that she left the land, even until now."
2 Kings 10:10: "now that there shall fall unto the earth of the word of the LORD,"
2 Kings 10:33: "eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites,"
2 Kings 11:3: "And Athaliah did reign over the land."
2 Kings 11:14: "the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah"
2 Kings 11:18: "And all the people of the land went into the house and broke it down; his altars"
2 Kings 11:19: "and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house"
2 Kings 11:20: "And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city and they slew Athaliah"
2 Kings 13:18: "of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed."
2 Kings 13:20: "him. And the bands of the Moabites the land at the coming in of the year."
2 Kings 15:5: "judging the people of the land."
2 Kings 15:19: "of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand"
2 Kings 15:20: "and stayed not there in the land."
2 Kings 15:29: "and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria."
2 Kings 16:15: "with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon"
2 Kings 17:5: "of Assyria came up throughout all the land, to Samaria, and besieged"
2 Kings 17:7: "their God, which had brought them up out of the land out of the land of Egypt, from under"
2 Kings 17:26: "the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold,"
