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:
Psalms 63:1: "longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water"
Psalms 63:9: "to destroy it, shall go of the earth."
Psalms 65:5: "of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:"
Psalms 65:9: "Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest of God, which is full"
Psalms 66:1: "Make a joyful noise unto God, ye lands:"
Psalms 66:4: "All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing Selah."
Psalms 67:2: "That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all"
Psalms 67:4: "righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah."
Psalms 67:6: " Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God,"
Psalms 67:7: "shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth"
Psalms 68:8: " The earth shook, the heavens also dropped of God:"
Psalms 68:32: "Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises Selah:"
Psalms 69:34: "Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing"
Psalms 71:20: "and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth."
Psalms 72:6: "the mown grass: as showers the earth."
Psalms 72:8: "sea, and from the river the ends of the earth."
Psalms 72:16: "There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top the fruit thereof shall shake"
Psalms 72:16: "and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth."
Psalms 72:19: "forever: and let earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen."
Psalms 73:9: "against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth."
Psalms 73:25: "Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire"
Psalms 74:7: "they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place to the ground."
Psalms 74:8: "the synagogues of God in the land."
Psalms 74:12: "of old, working salvation of the earth."
Psalms 74:17: "hast set all the borders of the earth: hast made summer and winter."
Psalms 74:20: "unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth of the habitations of cruelty."
Psalms 75:3: " The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I the pillars of it. Selah."
Psalms 75:8: "but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink"
Psalms 76:8: "to be heard from heaven; the earth and was still,"
Psalms 76:9: "to save all of the earth. Selah."
Psalms 76:12: "of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth."
Psalms 77:18: "the lightnings lightened the earth trembled and shook."
Psalms 78:12: "did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land in the field of Zoan."
Psalms 78:69: "his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth forever."
Psalms 79:2: "the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth."
Psalms 80:9: "room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land."
Psalms 81:5: "for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood"
Psalms 81:10: "am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land thee out of the land open thy mouth wide,"
Psalms 82:5: "all the foundations of the earth are out of course."
Psalms 82:8: "Arise, O God, judge the earth: for shalt inherit all"
Psalms 83:18: "art the most high over all the earth."
Psalms 85:1: "of Korah. LORD, unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob."
Psalms 85:9: "them that fear him; that glory in our land."
Psalms 85:11: "Truth shall spring out of the earth; out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down"
Psalms 85:12: "the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land her increase."
Psalms 88:12: "be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land"
Psalms 89:11: "The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fullness hast founded"
Psalms 89:27: "him my firstborn, higher of the earth."
Psalms 89:39: "of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground."
Psalms 89:44: "Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground."
