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 36:3: "at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver and a talent"
2 Chronicles 36:21: "by the mouth of Jeremiah, the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as"
2 Chronicles 36:23: "of Persia, the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given"
Ezra 1:2: "hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build"
Ezra 3:3: "was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon"
Ezra 4:4: "Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people and troubled them in building,"
Ezra 6:21: "unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD"
Ezra 9:1: "have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites,"
Ezra 9:2: "so that the holy have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers"
Ezra 9:7: "and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil,"
Ezra 9:11: "thy servants the prophets, The land, unto which ye go to possess"
Ezra 9:11: "go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations,"
Ezra 9:11: "land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end"
Ezra 9:12: "ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever."
Ezra 10:2: "and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is"
Ezra 10:11: "his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives."
Nehemiah 4:4: "their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:"
Nehemiah 5:14: "that I was appointed to be in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year"
Nehemiah 8:6: "their heads, and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground."
Nehemiah 9:6: "of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas,"
Nehemiah 9:8: "with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites,"
Nehemiah 9:10: "and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly"
Nehemiah 9:15: "for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn"
Nehemiah 9:22: "them into corners: the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon,"
Nehemiah 9:22: "the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og"
Nehemiah 9:22: "and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan."
Nehemiah 9:23: "of heaven, and broughtest the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in"
Nehemiah 9:24: "went in and possessed the land, before them the inhabitants"
Nehemiah 9:24: "before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings,"
Nehemiah 9:24: "them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would."
Nehemiah 9:30: "give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands."
Nehemiah 9:35: "thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither"
Nehemiah 9:36: "we are servants this day, and for the land thou gavest unto our fathers to eat"
Nehemiah 10:28: "and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God,"
Nehemiah 10:30: "give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:"
Nehemiah 10:31: "And if the people of the land bring ware victuals on the sabbath"
Esther 8:17: "and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land"
Esther 10:1: "laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea."
Job 1:1: "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name and that man"
Job 1:7: "the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down"
Job 1:8: "Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright"
Job 1:10: "the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land."
Job 1:20: "his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshiped,"
Job 2:2: "answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down"
Job 2:3: "Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright"
Job 2:13: "So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days nights, and none"
Job 3:14: "With kings and counselors of the earth, which built"
Job 5:10: "Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth upon"
Job 5:22: "neither shalt thou be afraid of the earth."
Job 5:25: "shall be great, and thine offspring of the earth."
