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Strong's #3772: ouranos (pronounced oo-ran-os')

perhaps from the same as 3735 (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.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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ouranos

1) the vaulted expanse of the sky with all things visible in it

1a) the universe, the world

1b) the aerial heavens or sky, the region where the clouds and the tempests gather, and where thunder and lightning are produced

1c) the sidereal or starry heavens

2) the region above the sidereal heavens, the seat of order of things eternal and consummately perfect where God dwells and other heavenly beings

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: perhaps from the same as G3735 (through the idea of elevation); the sky

Citing in TDNT: 5:497, 736




Usage:

This word is used 283 times:

Mark 13:31: " Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not"
Mark 13:32: "angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but"
Mark 14:62: "in the clouds of heaven."
Mark 16:19: "unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand"
Luke 2:15: "from them into heaven, the shepherds said"
Luke 3:21: "and praying, the heaven was opened,"
Luke 3:22: "a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my"
Luke 4:25: "of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and"
Luke 6:23: "reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did"
Luke 8:5: "and the fowls of the air devoured it."
Luke 9:16: "fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and broke,"
Luke 9:54: "fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even"
Luke 9:58: "and birds of the air have nests; but the Son"
Luke 10:15: "Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell."
Luke 10:18: "lightning fall from heaven."
Luke 10:20: "names are written in heaven."
Luke 10:21: "thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid"
Luke 11:2: "Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy"
Luke 11:2: "be done, as in heaven, so in earth."
Luke 11:13: "children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy"
Luke 11:16: "him a sign from heaven."
Luke 12:33: "which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where"
Luke 12:56: "the face of the sky and of the earth; but"
Luke 13:19: "the fowls of the air lodged in the branches"
Luke 15:7: "joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,"
Luke 15:18: "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,"
Luke 15:21: "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and"
Luke 16:17: "And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than"
Luke 17:24: "out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under"
Luke 17:24: "unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son"
Luke 17:29: "and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all."
Luke 18:13: "so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his"
Luke 18:22: "thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me."
Luke 19:38: "of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest."
Luke 20:4: "of John, was it from heaven, or of men?"
Luke 20:5: "If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed"
Luke 21:11: "great signs shall there be from heaven."
Luke 21:26: "for the powers of heaven shall be shaken."
Luke 21:33: " Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not"
Luke 22:43: "an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him."
Luke 24:51: "and carried up into heaven."
John 1:32: "Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode"
John 1:51: "unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the"
John 3:13: "no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven,"
John 3:13: "but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is"
John 3:13: "of man which is in heaven."
John 3:27: "it be given him from heaven."
John 3:31: "the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all."
John 6:31: "them bread from heaven to eat."
John 6:32: "not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth"









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