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:
Daniel 9:7: "that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass"
Daniel 9:15: "our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt"
Daniel 10:9: "on my face, and my face toward the ground."
Daniel 10:15: "unto me, I set toward the ground, and I became dumb."
Daniel 11:16: "before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed."
Daniel 11:19: "Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and not be found."
Daniel 11:28: "Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart the holy covenant;"
Daniel 11:28: "covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land."
Daniel 11:40: "and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over."
Daniel 11:41: "He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: shall escape out of his hand,"
Daniel 11:42: "He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt escape."
Daniel 11:42: "He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt escape."
Hosea 1:2: "and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from"
Hosea 1:11: "themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day"
Hosea 2:3: "her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst."
Hosea 2:15: "as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land out of the land of Egypt."
Hosea 2:18: "and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely."
Hosea 2:21: "and they shall hear the earth;"
Hosea 2:22: " And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and they shall hear"
Hosea 2:23: "And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not and I will say to them which were not"
Hosea 4:1: "hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor"
Hosea 4:1: "nor knowledge of God in the land."
Hosea 4:3: "Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth with the beasts"
Hosea 6:3: "unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth."
Hosea 7:16: "for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt."
Hosea 9:3: "They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim to Egypt, and they shall eat"
Hosea 10:1: "he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images."
Hosea 11:5: "He shall not return into the land of Egypt, shall be his king, because"
Hosea 11:11: "as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land out of the land and I will place"
Hosea 12:9: "And I that am the LORD thy God from the land from the land of Egypt make thee to dwell"
Hosea 13:4: "Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land from the land of Egypt, no"
Hosea 13:5: "I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought."
Joel 1:2: "and give ear, all of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even"
Joel 1:6: "a nation is come up upon my land, and without number, whose teeth"
Joel 1:14: "and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry"
Joel 2:1: "let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD"
Joel 2:3: "them; and behind them a flame the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind"
Joel 2:10: " The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: and the moon shall be dark,"
Joel 2:18: "Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people."
Joel 2:20: "from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with"
Joel 2:30: "And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and pillars of smoke."
Joel 3:2: "they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land."
Joel 3:16: "and utter his voice and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD"
Joel 3:19: "they have shed innocent blood in their land."
Amos 2:7: "That pant after the dust of the earth on the head and turn aside the way"
Amos 2:10: "Also I brought you up from the land from the land of Egypt, and led"
Amos 2:10: "years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite."
Amos 3:1: "family which I brought up from the land from the land of Egypt, saying,"
Amos 3:5: "fall in a snare upon the earth, gin is for him? shall one take up a snare"
Amos 3:9: "at Ashdod, and in in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon"
