Reference: Earth
Hastings
EARTH in OT usually stands for one or other of the Heb. words 'eretz and 'ad
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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens."
then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!
Now it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.