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 formed the heavens and the earth.
And God will say the waters shall breed abundantly creeping things, the living soul, and birds shall fly over the earth, over the face of the firmament of the heavens.
And Jehovah God will form man of the dust from the earth, and will blow into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man shall be for a living soul.
O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah.
For not to the angels has he subjected the habitable globe about to be, of which we speak.