Whoah (slow down) . . . double-check the Hebrew.

Yes, that may have seemed a pretty quick write-up (it actually took hours). But I do need to check whether some of those thoughts on Gen. 1:1-30 were stretching the Hebrew meaning.

English to Hebrew to Genesis:

"Earth" - hā-’ā-reṣ, wə-hā-’ā-reṣ, ’e-reṣ, bā-’ā-reṣ, hā-’ă-ḏā-māh

• hā-’ā-reṣ (Strong's 776) - in order of priority, it can mean whole earth, land/territory, or ground surface

  Gen. 1:1, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

  Gen. 1:11, "Then God said, 'Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind' . . . "

  Gen. 1:15, "'and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth' . . ."

  Gen. 1:20, ". . . 'and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.'"

  Gen. 1:24, "'Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind' . . ."

  Gen. 1:26, "'Let Us make man in Our image . . . let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.'"

  Gen. 1:28, "God blessed them; and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it . . .'"

  Gen. 1:29, "'Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed . . .'"

  Gen. 1:30, "'and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant . . .'"

• wə-hā-’ā-reṣ (Strong's 776) - same root word as "hā-’ā-reṣ"
  

  Gen. 1:2, "The earth was formless and void . . ."

• ’e-reṣ (Strong's 776) - same root word as "hā-’ā-reṣ"

  Gen. 1:10, "God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas . . ."

  Gen. 1:24, "'Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind' . . ."

• bā-’ā-reṣ (Strong's 776) - same root word as "hā-’ā-reṣ"

  Gen. 1:22, ". . . 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.'"

  [(12/24/2015)
  
  Gen. 6:17, "'Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.'"
  
  
  Exodus 20:4, "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth."

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• hā-’ă-ḏā-māh (Strong's 127) - has the same origin as "adam"; in order of priority, it can mean tilled ground, property, earthen material, or ground surface
  

  Gen. 1:25, "God made . . . everything that creeps on the ground after its kind . . ."