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:
Amos 3:11: "GOD; there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces"
Amos 3:14: "and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground."
Amos 4:13: "and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name."
Amos 5:7: "to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,"
Amos 5:8: "of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:"
Amos 7:2: "of eating of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive,"
Amos 7:10: "thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear"
Amos 7:12: "flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread,"
Amos 8:4: "O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,"
Amos 8:8: "Shall not the land tremble for this, mourn that dwelleth"
Amos 8:9: "to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:"
Amos 8:11: "that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor"
Amos 9:5: "GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and all that dwell therein shall mourn:"
Amos 9:6: "and hath founded his troop the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out"
Amos 9:6: "and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name."
Amos 9:7: "I brought up Israel out of the land out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor,"
Amos 9:9: "yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth."
Obadiah 1:3: "in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?"
Jonah 1:8: "is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what"
Jonah 2:6: "I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars me forever: yet hast thou brought up"
Micah 1:2: "all ye people; hearken, O earth, and let the Lord GOD be"
Micah 1:3: "and tread upon the high places of the earth."
Micah 4:13: "and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth."
Micah 5:4: "shall he be great unto the ends of the earth."
Micah 5:5: "when the Assyrian into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise"
Micah 5:6: "And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, of Nimrod in the entrances"
Micah 5:6: "the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from"
Micah 5:6: "the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders."
Micah 5:11: "And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all"
Micah 6:2: "controversy, foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with"
Micah 6:4: "For I brought thee up out of the land out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed"
Micah 7:2: "The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none among men: they all"
Micah 7:13: " Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell of their doings."
Micah 7:15: "According to the days of thy coming out of the land of the land of Egypt will I show"
Micah 7:17: "they shall move out of their holes of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD"
Nahum 1:5: "at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world,"
Nahum 2:13: "thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no"
Nahum 3:13: "in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire"
Habakkuk 1:6: "nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not"
Habakkuk 2:8: "thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell"
Habakkuk 2:14: "For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters"
Habakkuk 2:17: "because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell"
Habakkuk 2:20: "is in his holy temple: let all the earth before"
Habakkuk 3:3: "Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise."
Habakkuk 3:6: "He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder and the everlasting mountains"
Habakkuk 3:7: "in affliction: of the land of Midian did tremble."
Habakkuk 3:9: "of the tribes, even thy word. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers."
Habakkuk 3:12: "Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen"
Zephaniah 1:18: "them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy:"
Zephaniah 1:18: "riddance of all them that dwell in the land."
