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 43:4: "the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah."
Jeremiah 43:5: "nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;"
Jeremiah 43:7: "So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed the voice of the LORD:"
Jeremiah 43:11: "And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, as are for death to death;"
Jeremiah 43:12: "them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on"
Jeremiah 43:13: "the images of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians"
Jeremiah 44:1: "all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes,"
Jeremiah 44:1: "at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,"
Jeremiah 44:8: "burning incense unto other in the land of Egypt, whither ye"
Jeremiah 44:8: "a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?"
Jeremiah 44:9: "of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?"
Jeremiah 44:12: "their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all"
Jeremiah 44:12: "and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine:"
Jeremiah 44:13: "For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as"
Jeremiah 44:14: "of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land to sojourn there, shall"
Jeremiah 44:14: "escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire"
Jeremiah 44:15: "even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered"
Jeremiah 44:21: "your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came"
Jeremiah 44:22: "and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment,"
Jeremiah 44:24: "all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:"
Jeremiah 44:26: "all that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great"
Jeremiah 44:26: "man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD"
Jeremiah 44:27: "the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine,"
Jeremiah 44:28: "the sword shall return the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all"
Jeremiah 44:28: "the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah,"
Jeremiah 44:28: "the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know"
Jeremiah 45:4: "will pluck up, even this whole land."
Jeremiah 46:8: "and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants"
Jeremiah 46:10: "the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river"
Jeremiah 46:12: "of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty,"
Jeremiah 46:13: "should come and smite the land of Egypt."
Jeremiah 46:16: "to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing"
Jeremiah 46:27: "I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land from the land of their captivity; and Jacob"
Jeremiah 47:2: "and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell"
Jeremiah 47:2: "therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl."
Jeremiah 48:21: "is come upon the plain country; Holon, and upon Jahazah,"
Jeremiah 48:24: "and upon the cities of the land of Moab, far or near."
Jeremiah 48:33: "and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land and from the land and I have caused wine"
Jeremiah 49:21: " The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry thereof was heard"
Jeremiah 50:1: "against and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet."
Jeremiah 50:3: "against shall make her land desolate, and none shall"
Jeremiah 50:8: "out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land out of the land and be"
Jeremiah 50:9: "of great nations from the north country: country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence"
Jeremiah 50:16: "every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land."
Jeremiah 50:18: "I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished"
Jeremiah 50:21: "Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against the inhabitants of Pekod:"
Jeremiah 50:22: "A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction."
Jeremiah 50:23: "How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder how is Babylon"
Jeremiah 50:25: "of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans."
Jeremiah 50:28: "The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land out of the land of Babylon, in Zion"
