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earth
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in the sense of soil or ground, the translation of the word adamah'
In Genesis 9:20 “husbandman” is literally “man of the ground or earth.”
Altars were to be built of earth (Exodus 20:24). Naaman asked for two mules’ burden of earth (2 Kings 5:17), under the superstitious notion that Jehovah, like the gods of the heathen, could be acceptably worshipped only on his own soil.
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As the rendering of 'erets, it means the whole world (Genesis 1:2); the land as opposed to the sea (1:10). Erets also denotes a country (21:32); a plot of ground (23:15); the ground on which a man stands (33:3); the inhabitants of the Earth (6:1; 11:1); all the world except Israel (2 Chronicles 13:9). In the New Testament “the earth” denotes the land of Judea (Matthew 23:35); also things carnal in contrast with things heavenly (John 3:31; Col. 3:1, 2).
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