Reference: Earth
Hastings
EARTH in OT usually stands for one or other of the Heb. words 'eretz and 'ad
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At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.
And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
O earth, earth, earth, give ear to the word of the Lord!
For he did not make the angels rulers over the world to come, of which I am writing.