Dict: easton - Earth

easton:

Earth @

(1.) In the sense of soil or ground, the translation of the word adamah'. In kjv@Genesis:9:20 "husbandman" is literally "man of the ground or earth." Altars were to be built of earth kjv@Exodus:20:24). Naaman asked for two mules' burden of earth ( kjv@2Kings:5:17), under the superstitious notion that Jehovah, like the gods of the heathen, could be acceptably worshipped only on his own soil.

(2). As the rendering of 'erets, it means the whole world kjv@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 ( kjv@2Chronicals:13:9). In the New Testament "the earth" denotes the land of Judea kjv@Matthew:23:35); also things carnal in contrast with things heavenly kjv@John:3:31; kjv@Colossians:3:1-2).

Earthquake @ mentioned among the extraordinary phenomena of Palestine kjv@Psalms:18:7; comp. kjv@Habakkuk:3:6; kjv@Nahum:1:5; kjv@Isaiah:5:25). The first earthquake in Palestine of which we have any record happened in the reign of Ahab (kjvKings:19:11-12). Another took place in the days of Uzziah, King of Judah kjv@Zechariah:14:5). The most memorable earthquake taking place in New Testament times happened at the crucifixion of our Lord kjv@Matthew:27:54). An earthquake at Philippi shook the prison in which Paul and Silas were imprisoned (Act 16:26). It is used figuratively as a token of the presence of the Lord kjv@Judges:5:4; kjv@2Samuel:22:8; kjv@Psalms:77:18 kjv@Psalms:97:4 kjv@Psalms:104:32 ).