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 31:8: "Behold, I will bring them from the north country, country, and gather"
Jeremiah 31:8: "country, and gather of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame,"
Jeremiah 31:16: "shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land from the land of the enemy."
Jeremiah 31:22: "for hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man."
Jeremiah 31:23: "this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again"
Jeremiah 31:32: "that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land them out of the land of Egypt; which"
Jeremiah 31:37: "can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I"
Jeremiah 32:8: "that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance"
Jeremiah 32:15: "shall be possessed again in this land."
Jeremiah 32:17: "the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm,"
Jeremiah 32:20: "hast set signs and wonders in the land even unto this day,"
Jeremiah 32:21: "thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders,"
Jeremiah 32:22: "And hast given them this land, which to their fathers to give"
Jeremiah 32:22: "to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;"
Jeremiah 32:37: "Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither"
Jeremiah 32:41: "them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart"
Jeremiah 32:43: "And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof say, It"
Jeremiah 32:44: "them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities"
Jeremiah 33:9: "and an honor the nations of the earth, which shall hear all"
Jeremiah 33:11: "I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 33:13: "of the vale, and in the cities and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities"
Jeremiah 33:15: "and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land."
Jeremiah 33:25: "appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;"
Jeremiah 34:1: "and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion,"
Jeremiah 34:13: "your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land out of the land of Egypt, out of the house"
Jeremiah 34:17: "you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth."
Jeremiah 34:19: "and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;"
Jeremiah 34:20: "unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth."
Jeremiah 35:11: "of Babylon came up the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem"
Jeremiah 36:29: "shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man"
Jeremiah 37:1: "king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah."
Jeremiah 37:2: "he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, unto the words of the LORD,"
Jeremiah 37:7: "to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land."
Jeremiah 37:12: "went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land to separate himself thence"
Jeremiah 37:19: "against you, nor against this land?"
Jeremiah 39:5: "king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon"
Jeremiah 39:10: "the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards"
Jeremiah 40:4: "it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land"
Jeremiah 40:6: "him among the people that were left in the land."
Jeremiah 40:7: "the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men,"
Jeremiah 40:7: "and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not"
Jeremiah 40:9: "to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king"
Jeremiah 40:11: "and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king"
Jeremiah 40:12: "places they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to"
Jeremiah 41:2: "the king of Babylon had made governor over the land."
Jeremiah 41:18: "of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land."
Jeremiah 42:10: "If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build pull you down,"
Jeremiah 42:13: "We will not dwell land, neither obey the voice of the LORD"
Jeremiah 42:14: "No; but we will go into the land where we shall see no"
Jeremiah 42:16: "feared, you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof"
