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:
Jeremiah 7:25: "that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this"
Jeremiah 7:33: "of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away."
Jeremiah 7:34: "the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate."
Jeremiah 8:16: "was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound"
Jeremiah 8:16: "at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city,"
Jeremiah 8:19: "of the daughter of my people country: country: Is not the LORD in Zion?"
Jeremiah 9:3: "valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil"
Jeremiah 9:12: "that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none"
Jeremiah 9:19: "we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out."
Jeremiah 9:24: "which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight,"
Jeremiah 10:10: "and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not"
Jeremiah 10:12: "He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world and hath stretched out the heavens"
Jeremiah 10:13: "to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain,"
Jeremiah 10:17: "Gather up thy wares out of the land, out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress."
Jeremiah 10:18: "the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that"
Jeremiah 10:22: "is come, and a great out of the north country, out of the north country, to make"
Jeremiah 11:4: "your fathers in the day out of the land out of the land of Egypt, from the iron"
Jeremiah 11:5: "unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this"
Jeremiah 11:7: "I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt,"
Jeremiah 11:19: "the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land from the land of the living, that his name may be no"
Jeremiah 12:4: "How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every wither,"
Jeremiah 12:5: "canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how"
Jeremiah 12:11: "it mourneth unto land is made desolate, because no"
Jeremiah 12:12: "of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land:"
Jeremiah 12:12: "from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh"
Jeremiah 12:15: "every man to his heritage, and every man to his land."
Jeremiah 13:13: "all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's"
Jeremiah 14:2: "and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up."
Jeremiah 14:4: "there was rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads."
Jeremiah 14:8: "shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry"
Jeremiah 14:15: "shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets"
Jeremiah 14:18: "the priest go about into a land that they know not."
Jeremiah 15:3: "and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy."
Jeremiah 15:4: "them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, Manasseh the son of Hezekiah"
Jeremiah 15:7: "And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave my people,"
Jeremiah 15:10: "and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury;"
Jeremiah 15:14: "And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest for a fire"
Jeremiah 16:3: "their fathers that begot them in this land;"
Jeremiah 16:4: "for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth."
Jeremiah 16:6: "and the small shall die in this land: be buried, neither shall men lament"
Jeremiah 16:13: "Therefore will I cast you out of this land into that"
Jeremiah 16:13: "you out of this land into a land that ye know not,"
Jeremiah 16:14: "the children of Israel out of the land out of the land of Egypt;"
Jeremiah 16:15: "brought up the children of Israel from the land from the land of the north, and from all"
Jeremiah 16:15: "of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither"
Jeremiah 16:18: "they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcasses"
Jeremiah 16:19: "shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers"
Jeremiah 17:4: "I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not:"
Jeremiah 17:6: "the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited."
Jeremiah 17:13: "and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD,"
