אֶרֶץ ʼerets

Meaning

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

In the King James Version: [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.

Derivation: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm;

Where it is used

• Job 12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.
• Job 12:15 If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.
• Job 12:24 He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
• Job 14:8 If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,
• Job 14:19 as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
• Job 15:19 to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.
• Job 15:29 He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.
• Job 16:13 His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
• Job 16:18 O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
• Job 18:4 You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
• Job 18:10 A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.
• Job 18:17 The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
• Job 20:4 Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,
• Job 20:27 The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
• Job 22:8 while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.
• Job 24:4 They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
• Job 24:18 They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.
• Job 26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
• Job 28:5 Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
• Job 28:13 No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.
• Job 28:24 For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
• Job 30:8 A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
• Job 34:13 Who gave Him charge over the earth? Who appointed Him over the whole world?
• Job 35:11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
• Job 37:3 He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
• Job 37:6 For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
• Job 37:12 They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
• Job 37:13 Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
• Job 37:17 You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
• Job 38:4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
• Job 38:13 that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
• Job 38:18 Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
• Job 38:24 In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
• Job 38:26 to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
• Job 38:33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
• Job 39:14 For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
• Job 39:24 Trembling with excitement, he devours the distance; he cannot stand still when the ram’s horn sounds.
• Job 42:15 No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.
• Psalms 2:2 The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
• Psalms 2:8 Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
• Psalms 2:10 Therefore be wise, O kings; be admonished, O judges of the earth.
• Psalms 7:5 then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah
• Psalms 8:1 For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.
• Psalms 8:9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!
• Psalms 10:16 The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations perish from His land.
• Psalms 10:18 to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
• Psalms 12:6 The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
• Psalms 16:3 As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
• Psalms 17:11 They have tracked us down, and now surround us; their eyes are set to cast us to the ground,
• Psalms 18:7 Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.
• Psalms 19:4 their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.
• Psalms 21:10 You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.
• Psalms 22:27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
• Psalms 22:29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him—even those unable to preserve their lives.
• Psalms 24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
• Psalms 25:13 His soul will dwell in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.
• Psalms 27:13 Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
• Psalms 33:5 The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.
• Psalms 33:8 Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere Him.
• Psalms 33:14 From His dwelling place He gazes on all who inhabit the earth.