arets
 

* 1.Arets, Aretz 'erets (Hebrew) With the definite article, ha-'arets. The earth, globe, ground, land, country particularly dry land in contradistinction to water. In cosmogony the original veil or garment surroundings, as wrap or vehicle of expression, a cosmic monad within it just as in India pradhana surrounds and manifests Brahman, or mulaprakriti with parabrahman