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:
Job 7:1: "an appointed time to man upon earth? also like the days of a hireling?"
Job 8:9: "our days upon earth are a shadow:)"
Job 9:6: "Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble."
Job 9:24: " The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth of the judges thereof; if"
Job 10:21: "whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;"
Job 10:22: " A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, any order, and where the light"
Job 11:9: "The measure thereof is longer than the earth, than the earth, and broader than"
Job 12:8: "Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes shall declare"
Job 12:15: "and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, the earth."
Job 12:24: "the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, in a wilderness where there is no way."
Job 14:8: "Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock in the ground;"
Job 14:19: "thou washest away the things which grow of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man."
Job 15:19: "Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger among"
Job 15:29: "shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth."
Job 16:13: "asunder, and doth not he poureth out my gall upon the ground."
Job 16:18: " O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry no place."
Job 18:4: "He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken thee? and shall the rock be removed"
Job 18:10: "The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in"
Job 18:17: "His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no in the street."
Job 20:4: "was placed upon earth,"
Job 20:27: "The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up"
Job 22:8: "But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt"
Job 24:4: "the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth themselves together."
Job 24:18: "as the waters; their portion in the earth: he beholdeth not the way"
Job 26:7: "over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing."
Job 28:5: " As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under as it were fire."
Job 28:13: "the price thereof; neither in the land of the living."
Job 28:24: "he looketh to the ends of the earth, under the whole heaven;"
Job 30:8: "of base men: than the earth."
Job 34:13: "Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed world?"
Job 35:11: "Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls"
Job 37:3: "and his lightning the ends of the earth."
Job 37:6: "he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; rain, and to the great rain"
Job 37:12: "he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth."
Job 37:13: "whether for correction, or for his land, for mercy."
Job 37:17: "thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth"
Job 38:4: "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, thou hast understanding."
Job 38:13: "That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken"
Job 38:18: "Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if it all."
Job 38:24: "parted, which scattereth upon the earth?"
Job 38:26: "To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man wherein there is no man;"
Job 38:33: "of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?"
Job 39:14: "Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth dust,"
Job 39:24: "He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither he that it is the sound"
Job 42:15: "And in all the land were no women found as the daughters of Job:"
Psalms 2:2: "The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel against the LORD,"
Psalms 2:8: "thee the heathen for thine inheritance, of the earth for thy possession."
Psalms 2:10: "therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth."
Psalms 7:5: "and take it; yea, let him tread down upon the earth, and lay mine honor in the dust. Selah."
Psalms 8:1: "excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above"
