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:
Proverbs 29:4: "The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he overthroweth"
Proverbs 30:4: "hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's"
Proverbs 30:14: "as knives, the poor from off the earth, from off the earth, and the needy from among men."
Proverbs 30:16: "The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not with water; and the fire"
Proverbs 30:21: "For three things the earth is disquieted, and for which it cannot"
Proverbs 30:24: "There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:"
Proverbs 31:23: "when he sitteth among of the land."
Ecclesiastes 1:4: "passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth forever."
Ecclesiastes 3:21: "that goeth downward to the earth?"
Ecclesiastes 5:2: "is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be"
Ecclesiastes 5:9: "Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served"
Ecclesiastes 7:20: "there is not a just man upon earth, doeth good, and sinneth"
Ecclesiastes 8:14: "which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom"
Ecclesiastes 8:16: "that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day"
Ecclesiastes 10:7: "as servants upon the earth."
Ecclesiastes 10:16: "Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes in the morning!"
Ecclesiastes 10:17: "Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, eat"
Ecclesiastes 11:2: "evil shall be upon the earth."
Ecclesiastes 11:3: "of rain, they empty the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south,"
Ecclesiastes 12:7: "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: shall return"
Song of Solomon 2:12: "The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing and the voice of the turtle"
Song of Solomon 2:12: "and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;"
Isaiah 1:2: "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for hath spoken, I have nourished"
Isaiah 1:7: " Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: strangers devour"
Isaiah 1:19: "and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:"
Isaiah 2:7: " Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither of their treasures; their land"
Isaiah 2:7: "neither of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end"
Isaiah 2:8: " Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work that which their own fingers"
Isaiah 2:19: "and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth."
Isaiah 2:21: "and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth."
Isaiah 3:26: "and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground."
Isaiah 4:2: "and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel."
Isaiah 5:8: "that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!"
Isaiah 5:26: "from far, and will hiss of the earth: and, behold, they shall come"
Isaiah 5:30: "them like the roaring and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light"
Isaiah 6:3: "holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory."
Isaiah 6:12: "have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land."
Isaiah 7:18: "of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria."
Isaiah 7:22: "and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land."
Isaiah 7:24: "thither; because the land shall become briers and thorns."
Isaiah 8:8: "of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel."
Isaiah 8:9: "in pieces; and give ear, all countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken"
Isaiah 8:22: "And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble dimness of anguish;"
Isaiah 9:1: "at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward"
Isaiah 9:1: "he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way"
Isaiah 9:2: "a great they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."
Isaiah 9:19: "Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, shall be as the fuel"
Isaiah 10:14: "have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing,"
Isaiah 10:23: "even determined, in the midst of all the land."
Isaiah 11:4: "and reprove with equity of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth,"
