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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:

Ezekiel 6:8: "the sword among the nations, through the countries."
Ezekiel 6:14: "upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness"
Ezekiel 7:2: "upon the four corners of the land."
Ezekiel 7:7: "is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: is come, the day of trouble"
Ezekiel 7:21: "of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute"
Ezekiel 7:23: "Make a chain: for the land is full crimes, and the city"
Ezekiel 7:27: "with desolation, of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way,"
Ezekiel 8:3: "and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions"
Ezekiel 8:12: "the LORD hath forsaken the earth."
Ezekiel 8:17: "here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger:"
Ezekiel 9:9: "is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city"
Ezekiel 9:9: "they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not."
Ezekiel 10:16: "their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also"
Ezekiel 10:19: "their wings, and mounted up the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside"
Ezekiel 11:15: "from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession."
Ezekiel 11:16: "among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries"
Ezekiel 11:16: "yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come."
Ezekiel 11:17: "the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you"
Ezekiel 12:6: "that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house"
Ezekiel 12:12: "he see not the ground with his eyes."
Ezekiel 12:13: "and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die"
Ezekiel 12:15: "when I shall scatter and disperse them in the countries."
Ezekiel 12:19: "And say unto the people of the land, Thus the Lord GOD"
Ezekiel 12:19: "their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence"
Ezekiel 12:20: "And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be and ye shall know that"
Ezekiel 13:14: "mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed"
Ezekiel 14:13: "Son of man, when the land sinneth grievously, then will I stretch out"
Ezekiel 14:15: "I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, it, so that it be desolate, that no man"
Ezekiel 14:16: "daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate."
Ezekiel 14:17: "a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land;"
Ezekiel 14:17: "and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from"
Ezekiel 14:19: "a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood,"
Ezekiel 15:8: "And I will make the land desolate, because a trespass, saith"
Ezekiel 16:3: "Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite,"
Ezekiel 16:29: "thy fornication in the land unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not"
Ezekiel 17:4: "of his young twigs, and carried a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants."
Ezekiel 17:5: "He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful he placed"
Ezekiel 17:13: "him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:"
Ezekiel 19:4: "him with chains unto the land of Egypt."
Ezekiel 19:7: "their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land and the fullness thereof, by the noise"
Ezekiel 19:12: "But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east dried up her fruit:"
Ezekiel 19:13: "in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground."
Ezekiel 20:5: "of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying,"
Ezekiel 20:6: "that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of the land into a land"
Ezekiel 20:6: "of the land into a land that I had espied for them, flowing"
Ezekiel 20:6: "and honey, which is the glory of all lands:"
Ezekiel 20:8: "them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt."
Ezekiel 20:9: "sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land out of the land of Egypt."
Ezekiel 20:10: "Wherefore I caused them to go out of the land out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into"
Ezekiel 20:15: "bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk"









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