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 50:34: "their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon."
Jeremiah 50:38: "her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols."
Jeremiah 50:41: "and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth."
Jeremiah 50:45: "that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least"
Jeremiah 50:46: "At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, is heard"
Jeremiah 51:2: "that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be"
Jeremiah 51:4: "Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through"
Jeremiah 51:5: "of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin"
Jeremiah 51:7: "in the LORD's hand, the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine;"
Jeremiah 51:9: "her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto"
Jeremiah 51:15: "He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world and hath stretched out the heaven"
Jeremiah 51:16: "to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain,"
Jeremiah 51:25: "which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon"
Jeremiah 51:27: "Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet prepare the nations"
Jeremiah 51:28: "thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion."
Jeremiah 51:29: " And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose shall be performed against"
Jeremiah 51:29: "Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without"
Jeremiah 51:41: "taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become"
Jeremiah 51:43: "are a desolation, a dry land, a land wherein no"
Jeremiah 51:43: "a dry land, a land wherein no man"
Jeremiah 51:46: "and ye fear for the rumor in the land; a rumor shall both come one year, and after"
Jeremiah 51:46: "that in another year shall come a rumor, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler."
Jeremiah 51:47: "the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall"
Jeremiah 51:48: "Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing Babylon: for"
Jeremiah 51:49: "shall fall the slain of all the earth."
Jeremiah 51:52: "upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan."
Jeremiah 51:54: "cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:"
Jeremiah 52:6: "no bread for the people of the land."
Jeremiah 52:9: "of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon"
Jeremiah 52:16: "of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen."
Jeremiah 52:25: "of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people"
Jeremiah 52:25: "of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst"
Jeremiah 52:27: "smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of"
Lamentations 2:1: "with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered"
Lamentations 2:2: "of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes"
Lamentations 2:9: "Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her king and her princes"
Lamentations 2:10: "of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they have cast up dust upon"
Lamentations 2:10: "of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground."
Lamentations 2:11: "are troubled, is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people;"
Lamentations 2:15: "that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?"
Lamentations 2:21: "The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: and my young men are fallen"
Lamentations 3:34: "his feet all the prisoners of the earth,"
Lamentations 4:12: "The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, have believed that"
Lamentations 4:21: "O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through"
Ezekiel 1:3: "Ezekiel the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river"
Ezekiel 1:15: "behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces."
Ezekiel 1:19: "were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up."
Ezekiel 1:21: "these stood; and when those were lifted up the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against"
Ezekiel 5:5: "I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about"
Ezekiel 5:6: "and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused"
