KJV dictionary & concordance
Pertaining to the earth or present world; material or worldly rather than heavenly.
Definition sources
First occurrence: John 3:12
Complete exact-word concordance
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
If I haue tolde you earthly things, and ye beleeue not: how shall ye beleeue if I tell you of heauenly things?
He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
Hee that commeth from aboue, is aboue all: hee that is of the earth, is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: hee that cōmeth from heauen is aboue all:
FOR 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.
¶ For we know, that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolued, wee haue a building of God, an house not made with hand, eternall in the heauens.
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glorie is in their shame, who minde earthly things.)
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
This wisedome descendeth not from aboue, but is earthly, sensuall, deuilish.
1611 marginal noteOr, natural
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Historical English dictionary sources
Pertaining to the earth, or to this world. Our earthly house of this tabernacle. 2 Corinthians 5:1. 1. Not heavenly; vile; mean, This earthly load Of death called life. 2. Belonging to our present state; as earthly objects; earthly residence. 3. Belonging to the earth or world; carnal; vile; as opposed to spiritual or heavenly. Whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. Philippians 3:19. 4. Corporeal; not mental.
