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Strong's G3772 · Greek

οὐρανός

ouranos · 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)


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

οὐρανός (G3772)

273 οὐρανός , -οῦ, ὁ , [in LXX chiefly for שָׁמַיִם (hence, often pl., οἱ οὐ. , v. infr.);] heaven ; of the vault or firmament of heaven, the sky and the aerial regions above the earth: opp. to ἡ γῆ , He 1:10 , II Pe 3:5 , 10 ; ὁ οὐ. καὶ ἡ γῆ , i.e. the world, the universe, Mt 5:18 , Mk 13:31 , Lk 10:21 , Ac 4:24 , Re 10:6 , al.; ἀπ’ ἄκρων οὐ. ἕως ἄ. αὐτῶν (on the absence of art. aft. prep., v. Bl., § 46, 5), Mt 24:31 ; ὑπὸ τὸν οὐ. , Ac 2:5 , Col 1:23 ; ὑψωθῆναι ἕως τοῦ οὐ. , fig., Mt 11:23 , Lk 10:15 ; σημεῖον ἐκ τοῦ οὐ. , Mt 16:1 , Mk 8:11 , al.; αἱ νεφέλαι , Mt 24:30 , al.; τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐ. , Mt 6:26 , Mk 4:32 , al.; οἱ ἀστέρες τοῦ οὐ. , Re 6:13 , al.; pl. ( οἱ ) οὐ. (Bl., § 32, 5), Mt 3:16 , Mk 1:10 , Jo 1:32 , II Pe 3:7 , 13 al. Of the abode of God and other blessed beings: of angels, Mt 24:36 , Mk 12:25 , Ga 1:8 , Re 10:1 , al.; of Christ glorified, Mk 16:[19] , Lk 24:51 , Ac 3:21 , Ro 10:6 , al.; of God, Mt 5:34 , Ro 1:18 , al.; ὁ Πατὴρ ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐ. (Dalman, Words , 184 ff.), Mt 5:16 6:1 , al.; θησαυρὸς ἐν οὐ. , Mt 6:20 , Mk 10:21 , al. By meton., of the inhabitants of heaven: Re 18:20 (cf. Re 12:12 , Jb 15:15 , Is 44:23 ); as an evasive reference to God, characteristic of later Judaism (Dalman, Words , 204 ff.): Mt 21:25 , Mk 11:30 , Lk 15:18 , Jo 3:27 , al.; ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐ. (= τοῦ Θεοῦ ; v.s. βασιλεία ).

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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