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 20:15: "which is the glory of all lands;"
Ezekiel 20:23: "that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;"
Ezekiel 20:28: "For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give"
Ezekiel 20:32: "say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone."
Ezekiel 20:34: "from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty"
Ezekiel 20:36: "with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with"
Ezekiel 20:38: "among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not"
Ezekiel 20:40: "the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there"
Ezekiel 20:41: "from and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified"
Ezekiel 20:42: "the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand"
Ezekiel 21:19: "may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: out of one land: and choose thou a place,"
Ezekiel 21:30: "thee in the place thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity."
Ezekiel 21:32: "thy blood shall be of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I"
Ezekiel 22:4: "thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries."
Ezekiel 22:15: "And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume out of"
Ezekiel 22:24: "of man, say unto her, Thou art the land is not cleansed, nor"
Ezekiel 22:29: "The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised and have vexed the poor"
Ezekiel 22:30: "in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none."
Ezekiel 23:15: "after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:"
Ezekiel 23:19: "of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt."
Ezekiel 23:27: "to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land brought from the land so that thou shalt not lift up"
Ezekiel 23:48: "Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all may be taught not"
Ezekiel 24:7: "she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;"
Ezekiel 25:7: "the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I"
Ezekiel 25:9: "from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth,"
Ezekiel 26:11: "and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground."
Ezekiel 26:16: "they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished"
Ezekiel 26:20: "of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with"
Ezekiel 26:20: "thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;"
Ezekiel 27:17: "Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: in thy market wheat"
Ezekiel 27:29: "from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;"
Ezekiel 27:33: "many thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise."
Ezekiel 28:17: "thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold"
Ezekiel 28:18: "of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all"
Ezekiel 29:5: "I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven."
Ezekiel 29:9: " And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; that I"
Ezekiel 29:10: "thy rivers, the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate,"
Ezekiel 29:12: "And I will make the land of Egypt desolate of the countries that are desolate,"
Ezekiel 29:12: "of Egypt desolate of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities"
Ezekiel 29:12: "the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries."
Ezekiel 29:14: "the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation;"
Ezekiel 29:14: "of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base"
Ezekiel 29:19: "I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon;"
Ezekiel 29:20: "I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor he served against it, because"
Ezekiel 30:5: "the mingled people, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword."
Ezekiel 30:7: "And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities in the midst of the cities"
Ezekiel 30:11: "of the nations, to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt,"
Ezekiel 30:11: "Egypt, and fill the land with the slain."
Ezekiel 30:12: "dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste,"
Ezekiel 30:12: "into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers:"
