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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:

Isaiah 39:3: "thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country country unto me, even from Babylon."
Isaiah 40:12: "with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales,"
Isaiah 40:21: "you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?"
Isaiah 40:22: "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants that stretcheth out the heavens"
Isaiah 40:23: "to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity."
Isaiah 40:24: "their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind"
Isaiah 40:28: "the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?"
Isaiah 41:5: "saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth drew near, and came."
Isaiah 41:9: "Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called"
Isaiah 41:18: "a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water."
Isaiah 42:4: "till judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law."
Isaiah 42:5: "and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people"
Isaiah 42:10: "song, and his praise of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein;"
Isaiah 43:6: "my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;"
Isaiah 44:23: "hath done ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest,"
Isaiah 44:24: "things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by"
Isaiah 45:8: "from above, and let the skies pour down let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation,"
Isaiah 45:12: "I have made the earth, and created man it: I, even my hands,"
Isaiah 45:18: "God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created"
Isaiah 45:19: "in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob,"
Isaiah 45:22: "me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none"
Isaiah 46:11: "from the east, the man that executeth my counsel country: country: yea, I have spoken"
Isaiah 47:1: "of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans:"
Isaiah 48:13: "Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand the heavens: when I"
Isaiah 48:20: "ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD"
Isaiah 49:6: "that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth."
Isaiah 49:8: "thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;"
Isaiah 49:12: "from the north and from the west; and these from the land from the land"
Isaiah 49:13: "Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth O mountains: for"
Isaiah 49:19: "For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, now be too narrow"
Isaiah 49:23: "thy nursing mothers: to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know"
Isaiah 51:6: "to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens"
Isaiah 51:6: "for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell"
Isaiah 51:13: "that hath stretched forth the heavens, of the earth; and hast feared continually every day"
Isaiah 51:16: "that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people."
Isaiah 51:23: "that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over."
Isaiah 52:10: "the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God."
Isaiah 53:2: "him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor"
Isaiah 53:8: "and who shall declare for he was cut off out of the land out of the land of the living:"
Isaiah 54:5: "of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called."
Isaiah 54:9: "should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth"
Isaiah 55:9: "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, than the earth, so"
Isaiah 55:10: "but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give"
Isaiah 57:13: "shall carry them all away; shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy"
Isaiah 58:14: "and I will cause thee to ride the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father:"
Isaiah 60:2: "behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, the people: but the LORD shall arise"
Isaiah 60:18: "shall no more be heard in thy land, nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call"
Isaiah 60:21: "also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land the branch of my planting, the work"
Isaiah 61:7: "they shall rejoice therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy"
Isaiah 61:11: "For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden in it to spring forth; so"









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