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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:

Psalms 112:2: "His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation shall be blessed."
Psalms 113:6: "Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!"
Psalms 114:7: "Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence"
Psalms 115:15: "of the LORD which made heaven and earth."
Psalms 115:16: "The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth hath he given of men."
Psalms 116:9: "I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living."
Psalms 119:19: "I am a stranger in the earth: hide not from"
Psalms 119:64: " The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach"
Psalms 119:87: "They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook thy precepts."
Psalms 119:90: "Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth."
Psalms 119:119: "Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: I love thy testimonies."
Psalms 121:2: "cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth."
Psalms 124:8: "of the LORD, who made heaven and earth."
Psalms 134:3: "The LORD that made heaven and earth bless"
Psalms 135:6: "the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places."
Psalms 135:7: "He causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh for the rain;"
Psalms 135:12: "And gave their land for a heritage, a heritage unto Israel"
Psalms 136:6: "To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for endureth forever."
Psalms 136:21: "And gave their land for a heritage: for his mercy"
Psalms 138:4: "All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, they hear the words"
Psalms 139:15: "in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth."
Psalms 140:11: "Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil the violent"
Psalms 141:7: "as when and cleaveth wood upon the earth."
Psalms 142:5: "Thou and my portion in the land of the living."
Psalms 143:3: "my soul; he hath smitten down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead."
Psalms 143:6: "unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah."
Psalms 143:10: "thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness."
Psalms 146:6: "Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, that therein is: which keepeth"
Psalms 147:6: "the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground."
Psalms 147:8: "with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains."
Psalms 147:15: "He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth swiftly."
Psalms 148:7: "the LORD from the earth, and all deeps:"
Psalms 148:11: "Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, judges of the earth:"
Psalms 148:11: "princes, judges of the earth:"
Psalms 148:13: "is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven."
Proverbs 2:21: "For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect"
Proverbs 2:22: "But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted"
Proverbs 3:19: "The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding the heavens."
Proverbs 8:16: "and nobles, even all the judges of the earth."
Proverbs 8:23: "from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth"
Proverbs 8:26: "While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, of the dust of the world."
Proverbs 8:29: "his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:"
Proverbs 8:31: "Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with of men."
Proverbs 10:30: "be removed: but the wicked shall not the earth."
Proverbs 11:31: "Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more and the sinner."
Proverbs 17:24: "him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool of the earth."
Proverbs 21:19: "It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry"
Proverbs 25:3: "The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart is unsearchable."
Proverbs 25:25: "soul, news from a far country. from a far country."
Proverbs 28:2: "For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man and knowledge the state"









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