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:
Zephaniah 2:3: "the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek"
Zephaniah 2:5: "of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no"
Zephaniah 2:11: "all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place,"
Zephaniah 3:8: "anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy."
Zephaniah 3:19: "them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame."
Zephaniah 3:20: "and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes,"
Haggai 1:10: "the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit."
Haggai 1:11: "And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon and upon the corn,"
Haggai 2:4: "and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for"
Haggai 2:6: "will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry"
Haggai 2:21: "will shake the heavens and the earth;"
Zechariah 1:10: "the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth."
Zechariah 1:11: "the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still,"
Zechariah 1:11: "through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest."
Zechariah 1:21: "which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter"
Zechariah 2:6: "Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land from the land of the north, the LORD:"
Zechariah 3:9: "the iniquity of that land in one day."
Zechariah 4:10: "are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth."
Zechariah 4:14: "that stand the Lord of the whole earth."
Zechariah 5:3: "the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off"
Zechariah 5:6: "moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth."
Zechariah 5:9: "the ephah between the earth and the heaven."
Zechariah 5:11: "unto me, To build it a house in the land and it shall be established, and set there"
Zechariah 6:5: "from standing before the Lord of all the earth."
Zechariah 6:6: "are therein go forth into country; and the white go forth after"
Zechariah 6:6: "them; and the grizzled go forth toward the south country."
Zechariah 6:7: "and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth."
Zechariah 6:7: "and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth."
Zechariah 6:7: "walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth."
Zechariah 6:8: "toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north"
Zechariah 6:8: "my spirit in the north country."
Zechariah 7:5: "unto all the people of the land, the priests, saying, When"
Zechariah 7:14: "whom not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through"
Zechariah 7:14: "them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate."
Zechariah 8:7: "my people from the east country, country, and from the west country;"
Zechariah 8:7: "from the east country, and from the west country; country;"
Zechariah 8:12: "the vine shall give and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens"
Zechariah 9:1: "The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, shall be the rest thereof: when"
Zechariah 9:10: "shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth."
Zechariah 10:10: "I will bring them again also out of the land also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria;"
Zechariah 10:10: "and gather them out of Assyria; them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon;"
Zechariah 11:6: "more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo,"
Zechariah 11:6: "and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not"
Zechariah 11:16: "I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither"
Zechariah 12:1: "which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within"
Zechariah 12:3: "themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against"
Zechariah 12:12: " And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of David"
Zechariah 13:2: "the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also"
Zechariah 13:2: "spirit to pass out of the land."
Zechariah 13:8: "And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, parts therein shall be cut off"
