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.
God said, "Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."
The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
O land of Judah, land of Judah, land of Judah! Listen to what the Lord has to say!
For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels.