Earth….who named the planet & other related topics.
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in McKinney, TX Jul 14, 2005
This just struck my curiosity today, but who in the world got to name this planet "Earth", and why would they use such a word????? Even in the bible it is reffered to as Earth......I need answers people before I flip out again........Some will say it was GOD....some will say it was Adam.......but I am looking for a real answer!
Now, I do know this: The Middle English word, erthe, which came
from Old English eorthe; akin to Old High German erda. This then traces
back to the Greek, eraze from the Hebrew erez, meaning ground.
Once my school teacher told that earth was named after earthworm
Cross
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 | 01:45 PM
I don't think the person who started this is interested so much in the etymology of the word Earth, so much as when/who we started officially referring to the planetary body we inhabit as "Earth." (in English at least)
The International Astronomical Union names planets (formed in 1919). So they must have given the planet its official name. Don't know exactly when they decided on this though.
Also:
Houdini, terra is the latin word for "earth" ie they both mean the same thing/ are the same word.. just in another language. The planet is generally given equivalent names in other languages so the Earth is always the "Earth," even if it's not.
But to further muck things up: "by International Astronomical Union convention, the term "Terra" is used for naming extensive land masses, rather than for the planet Earth."
Shelah
in Europe
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 | 04:07 AM
Hi,
Obviously all words are very special, without them we would be unable to communicate our deepest feelings. That being said, some words are more special than others, and Earth is one such special word. Earth is an anagram of the word 'heart'. The Hebrew word for Sun is Hammah, another indication of the specialness of a word is when it reads the same backwards as it does forwards, like Hamah. Another indication is when a word contains many other words, like the the word 'Time'... on the face of it, a very short word, and yet it contains the identifying words I, me, it, emit. It would take up too much 'space' and 'time' to elaborate much further on the word
'Earth' and the anagram 'Heart', except to add that another indication of the specialness of the choice of the name of our home planet is that it also contains the word 'hear' and of course, 'ear' 'art' 'he' 'a' so in a sense it can be construed that the Earth is a 'hearing heart'... like a mother who, unbeknown to her children, is listening to them.
Okay, we all know what the word means, that was not the question. WHO named Earth Earth? Was is Joe Schmuckatelli? Was it Bob on 5th Ave? WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO? And why did THEY get to name it?
alvin
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 | 02:31 PM
GENESIS 1: 10
And God began calling the dry land Earth,
That doesn't make sense in the fact that when those words were written in the bible, they would have to have known the earth was a sphere, because if it just meant "Ground", The ground is with out form anyway
I'm pretty sure in modern hebrew, the word meaning "dirt" is used for "ground" but for the life of me, I can't remember what that word is (an unfortunately, by hebrew-english dictionary is in Tucson, AZ and I am in London, otherwise I would go look it up)
ALVIN
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 | 03:29 AM
all of the planets are greek gods the days of the weeks months same thing satan named all these . god named the earth GENESIS 1:10.
and the earth was known to be round , at ISAIAH 40:22 is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
