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 48:16: "and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
Genesis 48:21: "with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers."
Genesis 49:15: "that rest was good, and the land it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder"
Genesis 49:30: "which Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham"
Genesis 50:5: "in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now"
Genesis 50:7: "of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,"
Genesis 50:8: "and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen."
Genesis 50:11: "And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw in the floor of Atad,"
Genesis 50:13: "For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried of the field of Machpelah,"
Genesis 50:24: "will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which"
Genesis 50:24: "you out of this land unto the land which he swore to Abraham,"
Exodus 1:7: "and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and the land was filled with"
Exodus 1:10: "and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land."
Exodus 2:15: "from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by"
Exodus 2:22: "I have been a stranger in a strange land."
Exodus 3:8: "of the Egyptians, and to bring them up that land unto a good land"
Exodus 3:8: "that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land"
Exodus 3:8: "a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey;"
Exodus 3:17: "I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites,"
Exodus 3:17: "and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk"
Exodus 4:3: "And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, a serpent; and Moses"
Exodus 4:3: "Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, a serpent; and Moses fled"
Exodus 4:20: "them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took"
Exodus 5:5: "said, Behold, the people of the land are many, and ye make them rest"
Exodus 5:12: "So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt stubble instead of straw."
Exodus 6:1: "and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land. of his land."
Exodus 6:4: "with them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage,"
Exodus 6:4: "the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers."
Exodus 6:8: "And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear"
Exodus 6:11: "the children of Israel go out of his land. out of his land."
Exodus 6:13: "the children of Israel out of the land out of the land of Egypt."
Exodus 6:26: "the children of Israel from the land from the land of Egypt according to their armies."
Exodus 6:28: "spoke unto in the land of Egypt,"
Exodus 7:2: "the children of Israel out of his land. out of his land."
Exodus 7:3: "my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt."
Exodus 7:4: "my people the children of Israel, out of the land out of the land of Egypt by great judgments."
Exodus 7:19: "and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone."
Exodus 7:21: "and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt."
Exodus 8:5: "frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt."
Exodus 8:6: "came up, and covered the land of Egypt."
Exodus 8:7: "frogs upon the land of Egypt."
Exodus 8:14: "And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank."
Exodus 8:16: "and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land"
Exodus 8:16: "that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt."
Exodus 8:17: "and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast;"
Exodus 8:17: "and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land"
Exodus 8:17: "became lice throughout all the land of Egypt."
Exodus 8:22: "in that day the land in which my people"
Exodus 8:22: "I am the LORD in the midst of the earth."
Exodus 8:24: "and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of"
