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:
Genesis 43:11: "this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man"
Genesis 43:26: "was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth."
Genesis 44:8: "we brought again unto thee out of the land thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal"
Genesis 44:11: "every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack."
Genesis 44:14: "there: and they fell before him on the ground."
Genesis 45:6: "two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which"
Genesis 45:7: "me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance."
Genesis 45:8: "his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt."
Genesis 45:10: "And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near me, thou, and thy children,"
Genesis 45:17: "your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;"
Genesis 45:18: "me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat"
Genesis 45:18: "and ye shall eat the fat of the land."
Genesis 45:19: "do ye; take out of the land out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives,"
Genesis 45:20: "your stuff; for the good the land of Egypt"
Genesis 45:25: "And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan Jacob"
Genesis 45:26: "is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for"
Genesis 46:6: "and their goods, which in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob,"
Genesis 46:12: "but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were"
Genesis 46:20: "And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born and Ephraim, which"
Genesis 46:28: "his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen."
Genesis 46:31: "and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto"
Genesis 46:34: "and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every"
Genesis 47:1: "and all that they have, are come out of the land out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land"
Genesis 47:1: "out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen."
Genesis 47:4: "moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land for thy servants"
Genesis 47:4: "for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee,"
Genesis 47:4: "now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen."
Genesis 47:6: " The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land thy father and brethren"
Genesis 47:6: "of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land thy father and brethren to dwell;"
Genesis 47:6: "thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest"
Genesis 47:11: "and his brethren, them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land"
Genesis 47:11: "in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh"
Genesis 47:11: "of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded."
Genesis 47:13: "And there was no bread in all the land; for was very sore,"
Genesis 47:13: "was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted"
Genesis 47:13: "sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of"
Genesis 47:14: "all the money in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn"
Genesis 47:14: "in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they"
Genesis 47:15: "And when money failed in the land in the land of Egypt, and in the land"
Genesis 47:15: "failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land and in the land all"
Genesis 47:20: "the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's."
Genesis 47:27: "And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country and they had possessions therein, and grew,"
Genesis 47:27: "dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied"
Genesis 47:28: "And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen so the whole age"
Genesis 48:3: "appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed"
Genesis 48:4: "and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession."
Genesis 48:5: "Ephraim and Manasseh, unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto"
Genesis 48:7: "from Padan, Rachel died me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet"
Genesis 48:7: "of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried"
Genesis 48:12: "from between his knees, and he bowed himself to the earth."
