Earthly

Usually translated “earthly” and “on earth”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• earthly 6
• on earth 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Philippians 2
• John 1
• 1 Corinthians 1
• 2 Corinthians 1
• James 1

5 books in all.

• Earthly (kosmikos)
• Made of dust (choikos)

• 1 Corinthians 15:40There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
• 2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
• Philippians 2:10That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
• Philippians 3:19Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
• James 3:15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “earthly” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.