'Founded' in the Bible
Where wast thou when I founded the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.
For it was he that founded it upon seas, and established it upon floods.
And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.
Thine are the heavens, the earth also is thine; the world and its fulness, thou hast founded them.
Of old hast thou founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands:
The mountains rose, the valleys sank, unto the place which thou hadst founded for them; --
From thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
Jehovah by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens.
And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and the afflicted of his people find refuge in it.
Behold the land of the Chaldeans: this people did not exist; the Assyrian founded it for the dwellers in the desert: they set up their towers, they destroyed the palaces thereof; he brought it to ruin.
It is he that buildeth his upper chambers in the heavens, and hath founded his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name.