Hebrew word study
אֶרֶץʼerets — the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
Pronounced “eh'-rets”
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
Translated in the King James as: common, country, earth, field, ground, land, natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.
Appears 2,450 times in Scripture
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm;
Read it in context & ask Abram about this wordWhere it appears
Genesis — 305×
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Exodus — 131×
Leviticus — 82×
Leviticus 4:27Leviticus 11:2Leviticus 11:21Leviticus 11:29Leviticus 11:41Leviticus 11:42Leviticus 11:44Leviticus 11:45Leviticus 11:46Leviticus 14:34Leviticus 16:22Leviticus 18:3Leviticus 18:25Leviticus 18:27Leviticus 18:28Leviticus 19:9Leviticus 19:23Leviticus 19:29Leviticus 19:33Leviticus 19:34Leviticus 19:36Leviticus 20:2Leviticus 20:4Leviticus 20:22Leviticus 20:24+ 57 more in Leviticus
Numbers — 120×
Numbers 1:1Numbers 3:13Numbers 8:17Numbers 9:1Numbers 9:14Numbers 10:9Numbers 10:30Numbers 11:31Numbers 13:2Numbers 13:16Numbers 13:17Numbers 13:18Numbers 13:19Numbers 13:20Numbers 13:21Numbers 13:25Numbers 13:26Numbers 13:27Numbers 13:28Numbers 13:29Numbers 13:32Numbers 14:2Numbers 14:3Numbers 14:6Numbers 14:7+ 95 more in Numbers
Deuteronomy — 192×
Deuteronomy 1:5Deuteronomy 1:7Deuteronomy 1:8Deuteronomy 1:21Deuteronomy 1:22Deuteronomy 1:25Deuteronomy 1:27Deuteronomy 1:35Deuteronomy 1:36Deuteronomy 2:5Deuteronomy 2:9Deuteronomy 2:12Deuteronomy 2:19Deuteronomy 2:20Deuteronomy 2:24Deuteronomy 2:27Deuteronomy 2:29Deuteronomy 2:31Deuteronomy 2:37Deuteronomy 3:2Deuteronomy 3:8Deuteronomy 3:12Deuteronomy 3:13Deuteronomy 3:18Deuteronomy 3:20+ 167 more in Deuteronomy
Joshua — 106×
Judges — 57×
1 Samuel — 51×
2 Samuel — 39×
1 Kings — 56×
2 Kings — 69×
1 Chronicles — 39×
2 Chronicles — 73×
Ezra — 13×
Nehemiah — 19×
Esther — 2×
Job — 57×
Psalms — 189×
Psalms 2:2Psalms 2:8Psalms 2:10Psalms 7:5Psalms 8:1Psalms 8:9Psalms 10:16Psalms 10:18Psalms 12:6Psalms 16:3Psalms 17:11Psalms 18:7Psalms 19:4Psalms 21:10Psalms 22:27Psalms 22:29Psalms 24:1Psalms 25:13Psalms 27:13Psalms 33:5Psalms 33:8Psalms 33:14Psalms 34:16Psalms 35:20Psalms 37:3+ 164 more in Psalms
Proverbs — 21×
Ecclesiastes — 13×
Song of Solomon — 2×
Song 2:12+ 1 more in Song of Solomon
Isaiah — 186×
Jeremiah — 260×
Jeremiah 1:1Jeremiah 1:14Jeremiah 1:18Jeremiah 2:2Jeremiah 2:6Jeremiah 2:7Jeremiah 2:15Jeremiah 2:31Jeremiah 3:1Jeremiah 3:2Jeremiah 3:9Jeremiah 3:16Jeremiah 3:18Jeremiah 3:19Jeremiah 4:5Jeremiah 4:7Jeremiah 4:16Jeremiah 4:20Jeremiah 4:23Jeremiah 4:27Jeremiah 4:28Jeremiah 5:19Jeremiah 5:30Jeremiah 6:8Jeremiah 6:12+ 235 more in Jeremiah
Lamentations — 11×
Ezekiel — 196×
Ezekiel 1:3Ezekiel 1:15Ezekiel 1:19Ezekiel 1:21Ezekiel 5:5Ezekiel 5:6Ezekiel 6:8Ezekiel 6:14Ezekiel 7:2Ezekiel 7:7Ezekiel 7:21Ezekiel 7:23Ezekiel 7:27Ezekiel 8:3Ezekiel 8:12Ezekiel 8:17Ezekiel 9:9Ezekiel 10:16Ezekiel 10:19Ezekiel 11:15Ezekiel 11:16Ezekiel 11:17Ezekiel 12:6Ezekiel 12:12Ezekiel 12:13+ 171 more in Ezekiel
Daniel — 20×
Hosea — 20×
Joel — 12×
Amos — 21×
Obadiah — 1×
Micah — 14×
Nahum — 3×
Habakkuk — 9×
Zechariah — 40×
Malachi — 2×
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