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 62:4: "be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but"
Isaiah 62:4: "but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth"
Isaiah 62:4: "for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married."
Isaiah 62:7: "Jerusalem a praise in the earth."
Isaiah 62:11: "hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold,"
Isaiah 63:6: "in my fury, their strength to the earth."
Isaiah 65:16: "That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God and he that sweareth in the earth"
Isaiah 65:16: "in the God and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because"
Isaiah 65:17: "new heavens earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor"
Isaiah 66:1: "the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house"
Isaiah 66:8: "who hath seen Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation"
Isaiah 66:22: "the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain"
Jeremiah 1:1: "that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:"
Jeremiah 1:14: "upon all the inhabitants of the land."
Jeremiah 1:18: "walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests"
Jeremiah 1:18: "against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land."
Jeremiah 2:2: "when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown."
Jeremiah 2:6: "they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led"
Jeremiah 2:6: "of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits,"
Jeremiah 2:6: "that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death,"
Jeremiah 2:6: "of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man"
Jeremiah 2:7: "And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered,"
Jeremiah 2:7: "thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination."
Jeremiah 2:15: "upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned"
Jeremiah 2:31: "a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people,"
Jeremiah 3:1: "unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou"
Jeremiah 3:2: "for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness."
Jeremiah 3:9: "through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones"
Jeremiah 3:16: "when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, days, saith the LORD,"
Jeremiah 3:18: "of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land out of the land of the north to the land"
Jeremiah 3:18: "out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto"
Jeremiah 3:19: "thee among the children, thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations?"
Jeremiah 4:5: "and say, ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves,"
Jeremiah 4:7: "he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities"
Jeremiah 4:16: "that watchers come from a far country, country, and give out their voice against"
Jeremiah 4:20: "is cried; for land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled,"
Jeremiah 4:23: "I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and the heavens, and they had no"
Jeremiah 4:27: "hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make"
Jeremiah 4:28: "For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens be black:"
Jeremiah 5:19: "them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve"
Jeremiah 5:19: "gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not"
Jeremiah 5:30: "A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;"
Jeremiah 6:8: "thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited."
Jeremiah 6:12: "my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 6:19: "Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring upon this"
Jeremiah 6:20: "from Sheba, cane from a far country? country? your burnt offerings are not"
Jeremiah 6:22: "a people from the north country, country, and a great nation shall be raised"
Jeremiah 6:22: "and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth."
Jeremiah 7:7: "Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that to your fathers, forever"
Jeremiah 7:22: "commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land them out of the land of Egypt, concerning"
