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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:

Genesis 12:6: "And Abram passed through the land unto the place unto the plain"
Genesis 12:6: "of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land."
Genesis 12:7: "will I give this land: and there built he an altar unto the LORD,"
Genesis 12:10: "And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down to sojourn there;"
Genesis 12:10: "for the famine was grievous in the land."
Genesis 13:6: " And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: their substance was"
Genesis 13:7: "and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land."
Genesis 13:9: "Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, from"
Genesis 13:10: "and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar."
Genesis 13:12: "Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot in the cities of the plain,"
Genesis 13:15: "For all the land which seest, to thee will I give"
Genesis 13:16: "thy seed as the dust of the earth: if a man can"
Genesis 13:16: "number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered."
Genesis 13:17: "Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth I will give"
Genesis 14:19: "possessor of heaven and earth:"
Genesis 14:22: "God, the possessor of heaven and earth,"
Genesis 15:7: "of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit"
Genesis 15:13: "that thy seed a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict"
Genesis 15:18: "have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto"
Genesis 16:3: "Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband"
Genesis 17:8: "unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land all the land"
Genesis 17:8: "all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be"
Genesis 18:2: "to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,"
Genesis 18:18: "and mighty nation, the nations of the earth shall be blessed"
Genesis 18:25: "that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"
Genesis 19:1: "to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;"
Genesis 19:23: "The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot into Zoar."
Genesis 19:28: "Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward the land of the plain, and beheld,"
Genesis 19:28: "the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke"
Genesis 19:31: "and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all"
Genesis 19:31: "unto us after the manner of all the earth:"
Genesis 20:1: "journeyed from thence toward the south country, between Kadesh"
Genesis 20:15: "And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before where it pleaseth"
Genesis 21:21: "and his mother took out of the land out of the land of Egypt."
Genesis 21:23: "thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned."
Genesis 21:32: "of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines."
Genesis 21:34: "And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many"
Genesis 22:2: "thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering"
Genesis 22:18: "And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; thou hast obeyed"
Genesis 23:2: "in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn"
Genesis 23:7: "stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, of Heth."
Genesis 23:12: "bowed down himself before the people of the land."
Genesis 23:13: "Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou"
Genesis 23:15: "My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred of silver; what"
Genesis 23:19: "before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan."
Genesis 24:3: "the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife"
Genesis 24:4: "But thou shalt go unto my country, and to and take a wife"
Genesis 24:5: "to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring"
Genesis 24:5: "must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence"
Genesis 24:7: "which took and from the land and from the land of my kindred,"









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