3772. οὐρανός (ouranos) -- heaven
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Strong's Concordance
ouranos: heaven
Original Word: οὐρανός, οῦ, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: ouranos
Phonetic Spelling: (oo-ran-os')
Definition: heaven
Usage: heaven, (a) the visible heavens: the atmosphere, the sky, the starry heavens, (b) the spiritual heavens.
HELPS Word-studies
3772 ouranós – heaven (singular), and nearly as often used in the plural ("heavens"). "The singular and plural have distinct overtones and therefore should be distinguished in translation (though unfortunately they rarely are)" (G. Archer).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. word
Definition
heaven
NASB Translation
air (9), heaven (218), heavenly* (1), heavens (24), sky (22).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3772: οὐρανός
οὐρανός, οὐρανοῦ, ὁ (from a root meaning 'to cover,' 'encompass'; cf. Vanicek, p. 895; Curtius, § 509), heaven; and, in imitation of the Hebrew שָׁמַיִם (i. e. properly, the heights above, the upper regions), οὐρανοί, οὐρανῶν, οἱ, the heavens (Winers Grammar, § 27, 3; Buttmann, 24 (21)) (on the use and the omission of the article cf. Winer's Grammar, 121 (115)), i. e.:
1. the vaulted expanse of the Sky with all the things visible in it;
a. generally: as opposed to the earth, Hebrews 1:10; 2 Peter 3:5, 10, 12; ὁ οὐρανός καί ἡ γῆ (heaven and earth) equivalent to the universe, the world (according to the primitive Hebrew manner of speaking, inasmuch as they had neither the conception nor the name of the universe, Genesis 1:1; Genesis 14:19; Tobit 7:17 (18); 1 Macc. 2:37, etc.): Matthew 5:18; Matthew 11:25; Matthew 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 10:21; Luke 16:17; Luke 21:33; Acts 4:24; Acts 14:15; Acts 17:24; Revelation 10:6; Revelation 14:7; Revelation 20:11. The ancients conceived of the expanded sky as an arch or vault the outmost edge of which touched the extreme limits of the earth (see B. D. under the word
b. the aerial heavens or sky, the region where the clouds and tempests gather, and where thunder and lightning are produced: ὁ οὐρανός πυρράζει, Matthew 16:2 (T brackets WH reject the passage); στυγνάζων, Matthew 16:3 (see last reference); ὑετόν ἔδωκε, James 5:18; add Luke 9:54; Luke 17:29; Acts 9:3; Acts 22:6; Revelation 13:13; Revelation 16:21; Revelation 20:9; σημεῖον or ἀπό τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, Matthew 16:1; Mark 8:11; Luke 11:16; Luke 21:11; τέρατα ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ Acts 2:19; κλείειν τόν οὐρανόν, to keep the rain in the sky, hinder it from falling on the earth, Luke 4:25; Revelation 11:6, (συνέχειν τόν οὐρανοῦ for הַשָּׁמַיִם עָצַר, Deuteronomy 11:17; 2 Chronicles 6:26; 2 Chronicles 7:13; ἀνέχειν τόν οὐρανόν, Sir. 48:3); αἱ νεφέλαι τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, Matthew 24:30; Matthew 26:64; Mark 14:62; τό πρόσωπον τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, Matthew 16:3 (T brackets WH reject the passage); Luke 12:56; τά πετεινά τοῦ οὐρανοῦ (genitive of place), that fly in the air (Genesis 1:26; Psalm 8:9; Baruch 3:17; Judith 11:7), Matthew 6:26; Matthew 8:20; Matthew 13:32; Mark 4:32; Luke 8:5; Luke 9:58; Luke 13:19; Acts 10:12. These heavens are opened by being cleft asunder, and from the upper heavens, or abode of heavenly beings, come down upon earth — now the Holy Spirit, Matthew 3:16; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:21; John 1:32; now angels, John 1:51 (52); and now in vision appear to human sight some of the things within the highest heaven, Acts 7:55; Acts 10:11, 16; through the aerial heavens sound voices, which are uttered in the heavenly abode: Matthew 3:17; Mark 1:11; Luke 3:22; John 12:28; 2 Peter 1:18.
e. the sidereal or starry heavens: τά ἄστρα τοῦ οὐρανοῦ Hebrews 11:12 (Deuteronomy 1:10; Deuteronomy 10:22; Euripides, Phoen. 1); οἱ ἀστέρες ... τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, Mark 13:25; Revelation 6:13; Revelation 12:4 (Isaiah 13:10; Isaiah 14:13); αἱ δυνάμεις τῶν οὐρανῶν, the heavenly forces (hosts), i. e. the stars (others take δυνάμεις in this phrase in a general sense (see δύναμις, f.) of the powers which uphold and regulate the heavens): Matthew 24:29; Luke 21:26; αἱ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς, Mark 13:25 (Hebrew הַשָּׁמַיִם צְבָא, Deuteronomy 17:3; Jeremiah 33:22; Zephaniah 1:5); so ἡ στρατιά τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, Acts 7:42.
2. "the region above the sidereal heavens, the seat of an order of things eternal and consummately perfect, where God dwells and the other heavenly beings": this heaven Paul, in 2 Corinthians 12:2, seems to designate by the name of ὁ τρίτος οὐρανός, but certainly not the third of the seven distinct heavens described by the author of the Test xii. Patr., Levi § 3, and by the rabbis ((cf. Wetstein at the passage; Hahn, Theol. d. N. T. 1:247f; Drummond, Jewish Messiah, chapter xv.)); cf. DeWette at the passage Several distinct heavens are spoken of also in Ephesians 4:10 (ὑπεράνω πάντων τῶν οὐρανῶν); cf. Hebrews 7:26, if it be not preferable here to understand the numerous regions or parts of the one and the same heaven where God dwells as referred to. The highest heaven is the dwelling-place of God: Matthew 5:34; Matthew 23:22; Acts 7:49; Revelation 4:1ff (Psalm 10:4
d. Büch. d. Macc., p. 20. On the phrase ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν and its meaning, see βασιλεία, 3; (Cremer, under the word βασιλεία; Edersheim 1:265).
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
air, heaven, sky.
Perhaps from the same as oros (through the idea of elevation); the sky; by extension, heaven (as the abode of God); by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel (Christianity) -- air, heaven(-ly), sky.
see GREEK oros
Forms and Transliterations
ουρανε ουρανέ οὐρανέ ουρανο΄ν ουρανοι ουρανοί οὐρανοί οὐρανοὶ ουρανοις ουρανοίς οὐρανοις οὐρανοῖς ουρανον ουρανόν οὐρανόν οὐρανὸν ουρανος ουρανός οὐρανός οὐρανὸς ουρανου ουρανού οὐρανοῦ ουρανους ουρανούς οὐρανούς οὐρανοὺς ουρανω ουρανώ ούρανώ οὐρανῷ οὐρανῳ ουρανων ουρανών οὐρανῶν ourane ourané ourano ouranō ouranoi ouranoí ouranoì ouranôi ouranōi ouranō̂i ouranois ouranoîs ouranon ouranón ouranòn ouranôn ouranōn ouranō̂n ouranos ouranós ouranòs ouranou ouranoû ouranous ouranoús ouranoùs
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Englishman's Concordance
Matthew 3:2 N-GMP
GRK: βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν
NAS: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
KJV: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
INT: kingdom of the heavens
Matthew 3:16 N-NMP
GRK: αὐτῷ οἱ οὐρανοί καὶ εἶδεν
NAS: and behold, the heavens were opened,
KJV: lo, the heavens were opened
INT: to him the heavens and he saw
Matthew 3:17 N-GMP
GRK: ἐκ τῶν οὐρανῶν λέγουσα Οὗτός
NAS: a voice out of the heavens said,
KJV: a voice from heaven, saying, This
INT: out of the heavens saying This
Matthew 4:17 N-GMP
GRK: βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν
NAS: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
KJV: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
INT: kingdom of the heavens
Matthew 5:3 N-GMP
GRK: βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν
NAS: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
KJV: is the kingdom of heaven.
INT: kingdom of the heavens
Matthew 5:10 N-GMP
GRK: βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν
NAS: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
KJV: is the kingdom of heaven.
INT: kingdom of the heavens
Matthew 5:12 N-DMP
GRK: ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς οὕτως γὰρ
NAS: for your reward in heaven is great;
KJV: reward in heaven: for so
INT: in the heavens thus indeed
Matthew 5:16 N-DMP
GRK: ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς
NAS: your Father who is in heaven.
KJV: which is in heaven.
INT: in the heavens
Matthew 5:18 N-NMS
GRK: παρέλθῃ ὁ οὐρανὸς καὶ ἡ
NAS: to you, until heaven and earth
KJV: unto you, Till heaven and earth
INT: shall pass away heaven and the
Matthew 5:19 N-GMP
GRK: βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν ὃς δ'
NAS: in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever
KJV: the kingdom of heaven: but
INT: kingdom of the heavens whoever moreover
Matthew 5:19 N-GMP
GRK: βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν
NAS: great in the kingdom of heaven.
KJV: in the kingdom of heaven.
INT: kingdom of the heavens
Matthew 5:20 N-GMP
GRK: βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν
NAS: the kingdom of heaven.
KJV: into the kingdom of heaven.
INT: kingdom of the heavens
Matthew 5:34 N-DMS
GRK: ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ὅτι θρόνος
NAS: either by heaven, for it is the throne
KJV: neither by heaven; for it is
INT: by the heaven because [the] throne
Matthew 5:45 N-DMP
GRK: τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς ὅτι τὸν
NAS: who is in heaven; for He causes
KJV: which is in heaven: for he maketh
INT: who is in[the] heavens for the
Matthew 6:1 N-DMP
GRK: ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς
NAS: with your Father who is in heaven.
KJV: which is in heaven.
INT: in the heavens
Matthew 6:9 N-DMP
GRK: ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς Ἁγιασθήτω τὸ
NAS: who is in heaven, Hallowed
KJV: which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy
INT: in the heavens hallowed be the
Matthew 6:10 N-DMS
GRK: ὡς ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ
NAS: be done, On earth as it is in heaven.
KJV: as [it is] in heaven.
INT: as in heaven [so] also upon
Matthew 6:20 N-DMS
GRK: θησαυροὺς ἐν οὐρανῷ ὅπου οὔτε
NAS: treasures in heaven, where
KJV: treasures in heaven, where neither
INT: treasures in heaven where neither
Matthew 6:26 N-GMS
GRK: πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ὅτι οὐ
NAS: at the birds of the air, that they do not sow,
KJV: the fowls of the air: for
INT: birds of the air that not
Matthew 7:11 N-DMP
GRK: ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς δώσει ἀγαθὰ
NAS: will your Father who is in heaven give
KJV: which is in heaven give good things
INT: in the heavens will give good things
Matthew 7:21 N-GMP
GRK: βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀλλ' ὁ
NAS: the kingdom of heaven, but he who does
KJV: the kingdom of heaven; but
INT: kingdom of the heavens but he who
Matthew 7:21 N-DMP
GRK: ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς
NAS: of My Father who is in heaven [will enter].
KJV: Father which is in heaven.
INT: in the heavens
Matthew 8:11 N-GMP
GRK: βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν
NAS: and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;
KJV: in the kingdom of heaven.
INT: kingdom of the heavens
Matthew 8:20 N-GMS
GRK: πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ κατασκηνώσεις ὁ
NAS: and the birds of the air [have] nests,
KJV: the birds of the air [have] nests;
INT: birds of the air nests
Matthew 10:7 N-GMP
GRK: βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν
NAS: The kingdom of heaven is at hand.'
KJV: The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
INT: kingdom of the heavens