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 Chronicles 7:21: "whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away"
1 Chronicles 10:9: "his head, and his armor, into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings"
1 Chronicles 11:4: "where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land."
1 Chronicles 13:2: "our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites"
1 Chronicles 14:17: "of David went out into all lands; brought the fear"
1 Chronicles 16:14: "our God; his judgments are in all the earth."
1 Chronicles 16:18: "Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot"
1 Chronicles 16:23: "Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; show forth to"
1 Chronicles 16:30: "Fear before him, all the earth: the world shall be stable,"
1 Chronicles 16:31: "Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say The LORD reigneth."
1 Chronicles 16:33: "because he cometh to judge the earth."
1 Chronicles 17:8: "thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth."
1 Chronicles 17:21: "And what one nation in the earth is like thy people whom God"
1 Chronicles 19:2: "of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun,"
1 Chronicles 19:3: "to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?"
1 Chronicles 20:1: "of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged"
1 Chronicles 21:12: "days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying"
1 Chronicles 21:16: "of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand"
1 Chronicles 21:21: "and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground."
1 Chronicles 22:2: "the strangers were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew"
1 Chronicles 22:5: "of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared"
1 Chronicles 22:8: "thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight."
1 Chronicles 22:18: "for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued"
1 Chronicles 22:18: "the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD,"
1 Chronicles 28:8: "ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you forever."
1 Chronicles 29:11: "for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head"
1 Chronicles 29:15: "our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding."
1 Chronicles 29:30: "Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries."
2 Chronicles 1:9: "over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude."
2 Chronicles 2:12: "made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king"
2 Chronicles 2:17: "all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering"
2 Chronicles 6:5: "I brought forth out of the land out of the land of Egypt I chose no"
2 Chronicles 6:14: "like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and showest mercy unto thy servants,"
2 Chronicles 6:18: "with on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens"
2 Chronicles 6:27: "and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance."
2 Chronicles 6:28: "If there be dearth in the land, if pestilence, if"
2 Chronicles 6:28: "their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness"
2 Chronicles 6:32: "Israel, but is come from a far country country for thy great name's sake,"
2 Chronicles 6:33: "to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name,"
2 Chronicles 6:36: "their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;"
2 Chronicles 6:37: "Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn"
2 Chronicles 6:37: "whither they are carried captive, and turn unto thee in the land of their captivity,"
2 Chronicles 6:38: "their heart and with all in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives,"
2 Chronicles 6:38: "they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers,"
2 Chronicles 7:3: "the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshiped, and praised"
2 Chronicles 7:13: "I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence"
2 Chronicles 7:14: "heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
2 Chronicles 7:21: "done thus unto this land, and unto this house?"
2 Chronicles 7:22: "of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold"
2 Chronicles 8:6: "to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion."
