Torah opens with this statement (Genesis 1:1):
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
The word “earth”, אֶרֶץ (‘erets) in Hebrew, occurs some 2504 times in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. It refers variously, depending on context, to the earth, land, an area, a country, a region, a piece of ground, to soil, the land of Israel, the land of Canaan, other countries or lands, to the inhabitants of land, to a city, and to Sheol (the place of the dead).
Thus we are confronted with the reality of the newly-created world, a finite resource, with its dry (יַבָּשָׁה) land (Gen 1:9) which was to be inhabited and filled (מָלָא – Gen 1:28) by living souls (נֶפֶשׁ – Gen 1:24; 2:7) both animals and humans.
The human was created on the sixth day (יוֹם – day, period or time – Gen 1:31) and given the mandate by God (אֱלֹהִים – Elohim – Gen 1:28) to subdue (כָּבַשׁ – dominate) the earth – the land.
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