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 Chronicles 8:8: "who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed"
2 Chronicles 8:17: "at the sea side in the land of Edom."
2 Chronicles 9:5: "report I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:"
2 Chronicles 9:11: "such seen before in the land of Judah."
2 Chronicles 9:12: "unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants."
2 Chronicles 9:14: "brought. And all of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold"
2 Chronicles 9:22: "passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom."
2 Chronicles 9:23: "And all the kings of the earth sought of Solomon, to hear"
2 Chronicles 9:26: "the kings from the river the land of the Philistines, and to the border"
2 Chronicles 9:28: "horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands."
2 Chronicles 11:23: "of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every"
2 Chronicles 12:8: "my service, of the kingdoms of the countries."
2 Chronicles 13:9: "and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate"
2 Chronicles 14:1: "reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years."
2 Chronicles 14:6: "cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those"
2 Chronicles 14:7: "and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought"
2 Chronicles 15:5: "were upon all the inhabitants of the countries."
2 Chronicles 15:8: "and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of"
2 Chronicles 16:9: "of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect"
2 Chronicles 17:2: "and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which"
2 Chronicles 17:10: "upon all of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war"
2 Chronicles 19:3: "thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God."
2 Chronicles 19:5: "And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced of Judah, city"
2 Chronicles 20:7: "of this land before thy people Israel,"
2 Chronicles 20:10: "Israel invade, when they came out of the land out of the land of Egypt, but they turned"
2 Chronicles 20:18: "And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all and the inhabitants of Jerusalem"
2 Chronicles 20:24: "and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped."
2 Chronicles 20:29: "on all of those countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought"
2 Chronicles 22:12: "and Athaliah reigned over the land."
2 Chronicles 23:13: "the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers"
2 Chronicles 23:20: "of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house"
2 Chronicles 23:21: "And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city after that they had slain Athaliah"
2 Chronicles 26:21: "house, judging the people of the land."
2 Chronicles 30:9: "them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious"
2 Chronicles 30:10: "passed from city to city through the country and Manasseh"
2 Chronicles 30:25: "out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt"
2 Chronicles 32:4: "and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria"
2 Chronicles 32:13: "unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able"
2 Chronicles 32:13: "of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver"
2 Chronicles 32:13: "any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?"
2 Chronicles 32:17: "him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand,"
2 Chronicles 32:19: "as against of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man."
2 Chronicles 32:21: "So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth"
2 Chronicles 32:31: "the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know"
2 Chronicles 33:25: "But the people of the land slew all against king"
2 Chronicles 33:25: "king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king"
2 Chronicles 34:7: "all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 34:8: "Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, he sent"
2 Chronicles 34:33: "the abominations all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made"
2 Chronicles 36:1: "Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz of Josiah, and made him king"
