'Ground' in the Bible

Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

And He directed the people to sit down on the ground;

But he who received the one talent went away, and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.

And I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’

Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.

And He *directed the people to sit down on the ground; and taking the seven loaves, He gave thanks and broke them, and started giving them to His disciples to serve to them, and they served them to the people.

and whenever it seizes him, it slams him to the ground and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth and stiffens out. I told Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not do it.”

They brought the boy to Him. When he saw Him, immediately the spirit threw him into a convulsion, and falling to the ground, he began rolling around and foaming at the mouth.

And He went a little beyond them, and fell to the ground and began to pray that if it were possible, the hour might pass Him by.

But the one who has heard and has not acted accordingly, is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation; and the torrent burst against it and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.”

While he was still approaching, the demon slammed him to the ground and threw him into a convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy and gave him back to his father.

And he said to the vineyard-keeper, ‘Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?’

and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

And being in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground.

and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead?

So He *came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

They were saying this, testing Him, so that they might have grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground.

Again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.

When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes,

So when He said to them, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground.

But He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, and yet, even when he had no child, He promised that He would give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him.

But the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.

and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”

Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing; and leading him by the hand, they brought him into Damascus.

and he *saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground,

And though they found no ground for putting Him to death, they asked Pilate that He be executed.

and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?’

And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew dialect, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

And when they had examined me, they were willing to release me because there was no ground for putting me to death.

For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God;

(men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.