Words the Bible translates as earth
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- gēγῆthe earth: the physical world God made, from the soil underfoot to a named country to the whole created realm set against heaven.
- eretsאֶרֶץthe ground at any scale: the dirt underfoot, a country with borders, or the whole earth beneath the sky
- adamahאֲדָמָהthe cultivable ground: the living, reddish soil people are made from, work, belong to, and answer to
- apharעָפָרdust: dry, loose surface earth, and what it stands for, the stuff a human body is made of and crumbles back into.
- oikoumenēοἰκουμένηthe inhabited world: the earth as the place where people live, along with its people and its governing order
- araאֲרַעthe earth: the world people live on, or the ground underfoot.
+1 more meaning
- lower, inferior: ranking beneath something else.
- araqאֲרַקearthnot studied yet
- yabbeshetיַבֶּשֶׁתearthnot studied yet
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