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 waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
Yahweh God formed man from 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 Yahweh.
For he didn't subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.