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 bring forth great quantities of creatures with living souls and fowl that may fly above the earth upon the face of the firmament of the heavens.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
For unto the angels he has not subjected the world to come, of which we speak.