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Earth….who named the planet & other related topics.
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Posted By:
X
in McKinney, TX
Jul 14, 2005
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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:
<i>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.</i>
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Tru
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 | 11:34 AM
earth
O.E. eor |
X
in McKinney, TX
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 | 11:38 AM
hat doesn't answer the question.....sorry Tru. |
X
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 | 11:44 AM
I know that in the bible, the Hebrew word for earth is erez, meaning ground, as in "The "ground" was without form and void....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....Right????
Did they actually know that in the time of B.C. the earth was round???? Not according to history. I could be wrong though. If I was an expert, I wouldn't be asking the question. |
Charybdis
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 | 11:44 AM
The British did. Other people call it different names. |
Charybdis
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 | 11:49 AM
Why would they have to have known that the Earth was round?
Additionally,
Using simple trigonometry Eratosthenes in about 270 BC, worked out that the circumference of the Earth was about 40,000 km which is remarkably close to the correct value. |
X
in McKinney, TX
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 | 11:59 AM
There is no such thing as simple trig....lol.
Any way I am just taking that statement out of the bible because it is an ancient text. I am thinking that since it said it was shapeless back then in the beginning of time, what shape did they think it was when man evolved? |
X
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 | 12:02 PM
They wouldn't have said shapeless if a particular shape didn't evolve...... |
bub uh
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 | 12:25 PM
http://www.nineplanets.org/days.html
other names from other peoples |
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 | 06:08 PM
Sir Stephen, even the word "Earth" can refer to dirt. It's simply our education that causes us to think of a sphere when we hear the word. If this doesn't answer your question, I think you have to refrase it. |
X
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 | 08:20 AM
hmmmmmm.....I see what you are saying....Technically, it never had a name.....WoW....thats kinda heavy. We just kinda excepted the term "Earth" from all the language barriers reffering to the ground or dirt...It just worked it's way in....Very good citizen....you are a Gentleman and a Scholar. |
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 | 11:10 AM
It's just like when we hear the word Universe, we don't really know what to think of. Some of us think of a sphere, some of us try to think of a hypersphere, some of us think of infinity, and some of us can't think of any definition at all. |
Peter
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 | 07:31 AM
Sir Stephen in a VAN down by the river said:
"Did they actually know that in the time of B.C. the earth was round???? Not according to history. I could be wrong though. If I was an expert, I wouldn't be asking the question."
Actually, it's possible that somebody way back then did realise the Earth is round. Just think about it, when sailors in a boat see an island for the first time the first bit they see of it is the top of it, i.e. over the horizon. Then the bottom part of the island emerges into view over the horizon as they get closer. So it's not impossible that groups of people in the time of B.C. realised that the Earth is round. That fact probably just didn't get recorded in official points of view. |
Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 | 01:11 PM
"Terra"... the name you spuds have given this world is "Terra", not "Earth"...dumbass |
Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 | 01:17 PM
And before you get all Republican on me, Stephen, a good friend of mine has asked me to show mercy to you from now on, denying you the privelige of receiving any more tumultuous verbal smackdowns from Yours Truly... It's against my better nature, but I defer to my friend's request on this one, so, don't get all in gear, because I can't bark at your mudflaps any more (at least for a while)... yer lucky my friend pities you, weasel-snout |
Razela
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 | 01:23 PM
Yay, i get to show off my little bit of knowledge of hebrew again!
You've got it half right. The hebrew word aretz (pronounced like air-retz) does mean ground, sort of. When a hebrew speaking person says aretz, they are talking specifically about the land of israel. It's just shortened from "aretz yisrael" which literally means the "land of israel". That's why the word "aretz" comes up so much in the bible, because "aretz" is just another way to refer to the promised land. At least that is the way it is in modern hebrew. Unfortunately, biblical hebrew is drastically different from modern hebrew, so I may be way off.
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)
The hebrew word for "world" is "olom," which I have only ever heard used when refering specifically to earth, so I'm not sure if it literally can mean "earth" or if it is just a general term as it is in english. Unfortunately, "olom" sounds nothing at all like "earth."
In other words, I have no idea Stephen... |
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 | 01:24 PM
Interestingly, Celestia has the name "Sol" for the Sun, but not "Luna" for the Moon. It's all subject to interpretation as to what the "real name" is, I guess. |
Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 | 01:38 PM
Personally, I refer to this planet as "this planet", but I've heard it called: "Leon", "Gefiltefish", and "Gertrude", among others |
mazza_huy
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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 | 04:10 AM
Hey
sorry to inturpt but i want to despretly want to know the same thing as tru.
I'm DESPERATE!!!
Thankks |
mazza_huy
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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 | 04:11 AM
sorry i meant same thing as X
in McKinney, TX.
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jenny
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 | 04:47 PM
ok... i'm curiouse. if the hebrew word for earth means 'the ground' then didn't they name earth? |
James
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 | 09:35 AM
Once my school teacher told that earth was named after earthworm 😊 |
Cross
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 | 02:45 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
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 | 06:07 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. |
Charybdis
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 | 09:20 AM
Earth is also an anagram of the word 'hater'.
I suspect this explains global warming. |
sammi-sam
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 | 09:25 AM
dis isnt helpin at all |
alvin
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 | 07:35 PM
ISAIAH 40:22 |
Eric
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 | 11:42 PM
:coolgrin:
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
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Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 | 04:31 PM
GENESIS 1: 10
And God began calling the dry land Earth, |
oyna
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Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 | 01:58 AM
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 |
oyunlar
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 | 12:40 PM
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
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 | 05:29 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: |
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