γῆ

genitive γῆς, ἡ (contracted from γεα, poetic γαῖα), the Sept. very often for אֶרֶץ and אֲדָמָה, earth;
1. arable land: Mt 13:5, Mt 13:8, Mt 13:23; Mk 4:8, Mk 4:20, Mk 4:26, Mk 4:28, Mk 4:31; Lk 13:7; Lk 14:35 (34); Jn 12:24; Heb 6:7; Jas 5:7; Rev 9:4; of the earthy material out of which a thing is formed, with the implied idea of frailty and weakness: ἐκ γῆς χοϊκός, 1 Cor 15:47.
2. the ground, the earth as a standing-place (German Boden): Mt 10:29; Mt 15:35; Mt 23:35; Mt 27:51; Mk 8:6; Mk 9:20; Mk 14:35; Lk 22:44 (L brackets WH reject the passage); ; Jn 8:6, Jn 8:8 (i. e. Rec.); Acts 9:4, Acts 9:8.
3. the main land, opposed to sea or water: Mk 4:1; Mk 6:47; Lk 5:3; Lk 8:27; Jn 6:21; Jn 21:8f, 11; Rev 12:12.
4. the earth as a whole, the world (Latinterrarumorbis);
a. the earth as opposed to the heavens: Mt 5:18, Mt 5:35; Mt 6:10; Mt 16:19; Mt 18:18; Mt 24:35; Mk 13:31; Lk 2:14; Jn 12:32; Acts 2:19; Acts 4:24; 2 Pet 3:5, 2 Pet 3:7, 2 Pet 3:10, 2 Pet 3:13; Rev 21:1; τά ἐπί τῆς γῆς the things and beings that are on the earth, Eph 1:10; Col 1:16 (T WH omit; L Tr brackets τά); involving a suggestion of mutability, frailty, infirmity, alike in thought and in action, Mt 6:19; τά ἐπί τῆς γῆς (equivalent to τά ἐπίγεια, Phm 3:19) terrestrial goods, pleasures, honors, Col 3:2 (opposed to τά ἄνω); τά μέλη ὑμῶν τά ἐπί τῆς γῆς the members of your earthly body, as it were the abode and instruments of corrupt desires, Col 3:5; ὁ ὤν ἐκ τῆς γῆς... λαλεῖ (in contrast with Christ as having come from heaven) he who is of earthly (human) origin, has an earthly nature, and speaks as his earthly origin and nature prompt, Jn 3:31.
b. the inhabited earth, the abode of men and animals: Lk 21:35; Acts 1:8; Acts 10:12; Acts 11:6; Acts 17:26; Heb 11:13; Rev 3:10; αἴρειν ζωήν τίνος or τινα ἀπό τῆς γῆς, Acts 8:33; Acts 22:22; κληρονομεῖν τήν γῆν (see κληρονομέω, 2), Mt 5:5 (4); πῦρ βάλλειν ἐπί (Rec. εἰς) τήν γῆν, i. e. among men, Lk 12:49, cf. Lk 12:51 and Mt 10:34; ἐπί τῆς γῆς among men, Lk 18:8; Jn 17:4.
5. a country, land enclosed within fixed boundaries, a tract of land, territory, region; simply, when it is plain from the context what land is meant, as that of the Jews: Lk 4:25; Lk 21:23; Rom 9:28; Jas 5:17; with a gentile noun added (then, as a rule, anarthrous, Winer's Grammar, 121 (114f)): γῆ Ἰσραήλ, Mt 2:20f; Ιουδα, Mt 2:6; Γεννησαρέτ, Mt 14:34; Mk 6:53; Σοδομων καί Γομόρρων, Mt 10:15; Mt 11:24; Χαλδαίων, Acts 7:4; Αἴγυπτος (see Αἴγυπτος); ἡ Ἰουδαία γῆ, Jn 3:22; with the addition of an adjective: ἀλλότρια, Acts 7:6; ἐκείνῃ, Mt 9:26, Mt 9:31; with the genitive of person one's country, native land, Acts 7:3.