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 17:26: "from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin,"
Jeremiah 18:16: "To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; that passeth thereby"
Jeremiah 19:7: "for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth."
Jeremiah 22:10: "more, nor see his native country."
Jeremiah 22:12: "whither they have led him captive, this land no more."
Jeremiah 22:26: "that bore thee, into country, where ye were not"
Jeremiah 22:27: "But to the land whereunto they desire"
Jeremiah 22:28: "and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?"
Jeremiah 22:29: " O earth, earth, earth, hear the word"
Jeremiah 22:29: "O earth, earth, earth, hear the word"
Jeremiah 22:29: "O earth, earth, earth, hear the word"
Jeremiah 23:3: "the remnant of my flock countries whither I have driven"
Jeremiah 23:5: "and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth."
Jeremiah 23:7: "the children of Israel out of the land out of the land of Egypt;"
Jeremiah 23:8: "the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, country, and from all"
Jeremiah 23:8: "of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither"
Jeremiah 23:10: "For the land is full of adulterers; for of swearing"
Jeremiah 23:10: "for of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness"
Jeremiah 23:15: "of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land."
Jeremiah 23:24: "fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 24:5: "out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good."
Jeremiah 24:6: "and I will bring them again this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant"
Jeremiah 24:8: "and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:"
Jeremiah 24:8: "that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:"
Jeremiah 24:9: "them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt"
Jeremiah 25:9: "and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all"
Jeremiah 25:11: "And this whole land shall be a desolation, and these nations"
Jeremiah 25:12: "saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual"
Jeremiah 25:13: "And I will bring upon that land my words which"
Jeremiah 25:20: "and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land"
Jeremiah 25:20: "of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron,"
Jeremiah 25:26: "another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth:"
Jeremiah 25:29: "a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts."
Jeremiah 25:30: "he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth."
Jeremiah 25:31: "shall come even to the ends of the earth; the LORD hath a controversy with the nations,"
Jeremiah 25:32: "and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth."
Jeremiah 25:33: "at that day of the earth even unto the other end of the earth:"
Jeremiah 25:33: "of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither"
Jeremiah 25:38: "his covert, as the lion: for their land desolate because"
Jeremiah 26:6: "a curse to all the nations of the earth."
Jeremiah 26:17: "Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke all"
Jeremiah 26:20: "this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:"
Jeremiah 27:5: "I have made the earth, and the beast that"
Jeremiah 27:5: "and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched"
Jeremiah 27:6: "all lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon,"
Jeremiah 27:7: "until the very time of his land come: and then many nations"
Jeremiah 28:8: "prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war,"
Jeremiah 29:18: "and will deliver to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing,"
Jeremiah 30:3: "the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess"
Jeremiah 30:10: "I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land from the land of their captivity; and Jacob"
