Why is Earth Not Capitalized in the Bible?

They just didn't capitalize it. You usually don't capitalize it when you're referring to soil anyway.

There´s no theological reason either, remember the Bible was written my men according to the Scriptures, I´m guessing because it´s a planet it hasn´t been capitalized, does that make any sense ?

I think it depends on the context, for one. Heaven is capitalized, for instance, but not heavens, as in "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." In this context it is a reference to the ground, not to the planet, and therefore it is not a proper noun. I have never pondered this, or looked through to see if it is never capitalized. Since at the time of the writing of the Bible the concept of planets did not exist, there would have been no reason to consider it as a proper noun. It is more like calling it "the farm". This is just my opinion, by the way.

It is because the Bible emphasizes God. If earth were capitalized, it would be making the earth more important then God or equal to God. Then people would be saying that is all right to worship mother earth because it is inferred in the Bible, and not as they do now worship mother earth because they do not believe in the Bible. So it is to avoid confusion. It also might be that it was not capitalized when the bible was written. But I think it is more of the first answer, that the Bible is supposed to show God's relationship with man, not the earth's relationship with man.

That is a very good question. I do not have a logical answer for it though. I have a hard time understanding alot of things in the Bible. I hope someone can answer this.

I think maybe Earth was not really identified as a planet then. They could just be thinking of the place they were living as a clump of dirt, some earth. Commmon, not proper name. Nice question, we should have more of these. Cheers!!

that is a question that I have never thought about, I have no idea why the earth is not capitalized, unless it is not referring to the planet but just the land, as in dirt, remember man was created from dirt and the spirit of God.

I don't really know the answer to this question. Earth may refer to world or soil depending on the context.

neither is heaven in mine... but I am guessing it is because the words is used more like Terra rather than a proper noun and heaven is used more as celestial?

Honestly , I don't know and I did not noticed that. Maybe during that time the author fo the book has no knowledge regarding proper nouns? In the new version of Bible, the Earth is capitalized. You have a point there when you said maybe the earth before was not called Earth but world.

I never noticed that before, interesting... now I will probably notice every time I read my bible. Lol. I am not sure why that is but maybe it is because the Bible wanted to emphasize how awesome God is so they minimized the number of other words that were capitalized and earth was selected not to be capitalized? Honestly, I have no idea.

Well, you will not find heaven capitalized in the Bible, either. Perhaps earth is just another 'body' in the Bible and we put more emphasis on it than the Lord did back then.

I think the whole soil versus planet point is unimportant. Think about it. The earth is the soil. The Earth is made of soil. Earth=soil. It's the same thing, really.

Also, I think someone might have said this already, but I think some languages don't capitalize planets at all. So it could very well just be a translation issue that means nothing at all.

wouldnt ya think that it was called earth if its in the bible! and good question that I have no idea how to answer

Hummmmmmmmmmm??? Okay, I looked it up. God created the universe. The heavens and the earth. Earth is not capitalized as we know it. But, it is meant as Earth. A plant needs soil and soil is also called earth. So, I guess it was just normal to only say: heavens and earth. I guess. Groetjes en nog een prettige dag.

Hello my friend gtargirl Ji, Firstly it is not a name of a person. The other major planets are named after Greek/Roman Gods. Though, earth was named after greek Goddess 'Gaea' , its title still remains simply earth. Further earth is known after old english word, 'eorthe' meaning 'Ground' Gaea is a Goddess of earth, who bore and married to uranus and became the motehr of Titans and the Cyclopes. (based on web informations). may god bless you and have a great time.