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:
Genesis 24:7: "swore unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he"
Genesis 24:37: "of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:"
Genesis 24:52: "their words, he worshiped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth."
Genesis 24:62: "of the well Lahai-roi; for he in the south country."
Genesis 25:6: "lived, eastward, unto the east country."
Genesis 26:1: "And there was a famine in the land, beside the first that"
Genesis 26:2: "Go not down dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:"
Genesis 26:3: "Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed,"
Genesis 26:3: "all these countries, and I will perform the oath which"
Genesis 26:4: "all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth"
Genesis 26:4: "and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;"
Genesis 26:12: "Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received year a hundredfold:"
Genesis 26:22: "now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."
Genesis 27:28: "thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:"
Genesis 27:39: "thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven"
Genesis 27:46: "of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good"
Genesis 28:4: "thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave"
Genesis 28:12: "and behold a ladder set up on the earth, of it reached to heaven: and behold"
Genesis 28:13: "thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest,"
Genesis 28:14: "And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad and to the east, and to the north,"
Genesis 29:1: "Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people"
Genesis 30:25: "that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country."
Genesis 31:3: "Jacob, Return the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with"
Genesis 31:13: "unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto"
Genesis 31:13: "from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred."
Genesis 31:18: "to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan."
Genesis 32:3: "him to his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom."
Genesis 32:9: "which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with"
Genesis 33:3: "passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground times, until he came near"
Genesis 33:18: "a city of Shechem, is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram;"
Genesis 34:1: "went out to see the daughters of the land."
Genesis 34:2: "of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled"
Genesis 34:10: "And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before and trade ye therein, and get you possessions"
Genesis 34:21: "are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough"
Genesis 34:21: "us; therefore let them dwell and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for"
Genesis 34:30: "me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few"
Genesis 35:6: "came to Luz, which is in the land that is, Bethel, he"
Genesis 35:12: " And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, it, and to thy seed after"
Genesis 35:12: "after thee will I give the land."
Genesis 35:16: "from Bethel; and there was but a little way a little way to Ephrath:"
Genesis 35:22: "when Israel dwelt in that land, went and lay with"
Genesis 36:5: "of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan."
Genesis 36:6: "his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country"
Genesis 36:6: "of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob."
Genesis 36:7: "more than that they might dwell and the land wherein they were strangers could not"
Genesis 36:16: "these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah."
Genesis 36:17: "these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath"
Genesis 36:20: "of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,"
Genesis 36:21: "the children of Seir in the land of Edom."
Genesis 36:30: "are the dukes that came of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir."
