CORNERS OF THE EARTH, Heb. מֵאַרְבַּ֖ע כַּנְפֹ֥ות הָאָֽרֶץ Isaiah 11:12 and variations in Job 37:3 and 38:13; Ezekiel 7:2. A phrase to describe the expanse of the physical earth derived from semantic equivalents of great antiquity. The phrase, “four corners,” as expressive of the whole earth or a country, occurs in inscrs. of the Old Akkadian and Old Babylonian period (c. 2300 b.c.).