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 Kings 17:26: "the manner of the God of the land."
2 Kings 17:27: "there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land."
2 Kings 17:36: "the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt"
2 Kings 18:25: "to me, Go up against this land, and destroy"
2 Kings 18:32: "I come and take you away to a land a land of corn"
2 Kings 18:32: "and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine,"
2 Kings 18:32: "and take you away to a land a land of corn and wine, a land"
2 Kings 18:32: "a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land"
2 Kings 18:32: "and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey,"
2 Kings 18:33: "of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king"
2 Kings 18:35: "Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that their country"
2 Kings 18:35: "that their country out of mine hand, that the LORD"
2 Kings 19:7: "upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."
2 Kings 19:7: "to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."
2 Kings 19:11: "of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?"
2 Kings 19:15: "even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven"
2 Kings 19:15: "hast made heaven and earth."
2 Kings 19:17: "have destroyed and their lands,"
2 Kings 19:19: "that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou"
2 Kings 19:37: "him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned"
2 Kings 20:14: "they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, from a far country, even from Babylon."
2 Kings 21:24: "And the people of the land slew all against king"
2 Kings 21:24: "king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king"
2 Kings 23:24: "the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away,"
2 Kings 23:30: "and buried him in his own sepulcher. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz"
2 Kings 23:33: "And Pharaoh Necho put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, in Jerusalem;"
2 Kings 23:33: "in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of a hundred"
2 Kings 23:35: "he taxed the land to give the money according"
2 Kings 23:35: "and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh Necho."
2 Kings 24:7: "not again out of his land: out of his land: for the king of Babylon"
2 Kings 24:14: "save the poorest sort of the people of the land."
2 Kings 24:15: "wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem"
2 Kings 25:3: "no bread for the people of the land."
2 Kings 25:12: "of the guard left of the poor of the land and husbandmen."
2 Kings 25:19: "scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men"
2 Kings 25:19: "the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found"
2 Kings 25:21: "smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of"
2 Kings 25:22: "And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom king of Babylon"
2 Kings 25:24: "to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king"
1 Chronicles 1:10: "to be mighty upon the earth."
1 Chronicles 1:19: "was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name was Joktan."
1 Chronicles 1:43: "are the kings that reigned in the land before any king reigned"
1 Chronicles 1:45: "And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the land of the Temanites in his stead."
1 Chronicles 2:22: "and twenty cities in the land of Gilead."
1 Chronicles 4:40: "fat pasture and good, and the land and quiet, and peaceable;"
1 Chronicles 5:9: "because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead."
1 Chronicles 5:11: "of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land unto Salchah:"
1 Chronicles 5:23: "tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan"
1 Chronicles 5:25: "after of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before"
1 Chronicles 6:55: "And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, thereof round about"
