ἐπουράνιος
heaven
‘heaven’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms 11 distinct
- Adjective, Dative, Plural, Neuter 5 times (26%)
- Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 3 times (16%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 2 times (11%)
- Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Neuter 2 times (11%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (5%)
- Adjective, Dative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (5%)
- Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 1 time (5%)
- Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 1 time (5%)
+3 more forms (3 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 19 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2032 appears — 17 distinct verses across 6 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
John 1 verse
1 Corinthians 3 verses
- 1 Corinthians 15:40 ἐπουράνια ἐπουρανίων adj nom pl neut adj gen pl neut There are also celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial.
- 1 Corinthians 15:48 ἐπουράνιος ἐπουράνιοι adj nom sg masc adj nom pl masc As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
- 1 Corinthians 15:49 ἐπουρανίου adj gen sg masc As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's also bear the image of the heavenly.
Ephesians 5 verses
- Ephesians 1:3 ἐπουρανίοις adj dat pl neut Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
- Ephesians 1:20 ἐπουρανίοις adj dat pl neut which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
- Ephesians 2:6 ἐπουρανίοις adj dat pl neut and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
- Ephesians 3:10 ἐπουρανίοις adj dat pl neut to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,
- Ephesians 6:12 ἐπουρανίοις adj dat pl neut For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Philippians 1 verse
2 Timothy 1 verse
Hebrews 6 verses
- Hebrews 3:1 ἐπουρανίου adj gen sg fem Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;
- Hebrews 6:4 ἐπουρανίου adj gen sg fem For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
- Hebrews 8:5 ἐπουρανίων adj gen pl neut who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."
- Hebrews 9:23 ἐπουράνια adj acc pl neut It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
- Hebrews 11:16 ἐπουρανίου adj gen sg fem But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
- Hebrews 12:22 ἐπουρανίῳ adj dat sg fem But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
επουρανιος — transliterated epouránios — is a Greek adjective carrying the sense “heaven.” Its earliest occurrence is John 3:12. It appears 17 verses across 6 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in Hebrews. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. See the sense tree, 17-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2032 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 17
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 17 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #644
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 644 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 17 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hebrews 6 verses 35%
- Ephesians 5 verses 29%
- 1 Corinthians 3 verses 18%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 17 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 10 verses · 59%
- Hebrews 6 verses · 35%
- Gospels 1 verse · 6%
- Johannine 1 verse · 6%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Heavenly 12×, Heavenly things 3×, Celestial 2×
- American Standard Version: Heavenly 10×, Heavenly things 3×, Celestial 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Heavenly 10×, Heavenly realms 5×, Heaven 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Heavenly 10×, Heavenly places 3×, Heavenly things 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2032 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2032 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2032 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2032 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- existing in heaven
- of heavenly origin or nature
Word origin
Derived from επι (epí) (G1909) — upon.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G2032 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐπουρανίοις epouraníois | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Neuter | Ephesians 1:3 | 5 |
| ἐπουρανίου epouraníou | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 3:1 | 4 |
| ἐπουράνια epouránia | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | John 3:12 | 3 |
| ἐπουρανίων epouraníōn | Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 15:40 | 3 |
| ἐπουράνιοι epouránioi | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 15:48 | 1 |
| ἐπουράνιον epouránion | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | 2 Timothy 4:18 | 1 |
| ἐπουράνιος epouránios | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 15:48 | 1 |
| ἐπουρανίῳ epouraníō | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 12:22 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2032, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- επαγγελλω epangéllō G1861 to announce
- επαγω epágō G1863 to bring upon
- επαγωνιζομαι epagōnízomai G1864 to contend
- επαθροιζω epathroízō G1865 to gather together
- επαινεω epainéō G1867 to approve
- επαινος épainos G1868 approval
- επαιρω epaírō G1869 to lift up
- επαισχυνομαι epaischýnomai G1870 to be ashamed
- επαιτεω epaitéō G1871 to ask repeatedly
- επακουω epakoúō G1873 to give ear to
- επακροαομαι epakroáomai G1874 to listen to
- επαν epán G1875 after
- επαναγκες epánankes G1876 necessarily
- επαναγω epanágō G1877 to lead back
- επαναμιμνησκω epanamimnḗskō G1878 to remind
- επαναπαυομαι epanapaúomai G1879 to rest upon
- επανερχομαι epanérchomai G1880 to return
- επανισταμαι epanístamai G1881 to raise up against
- επανορθωσις epanórthōsis G1882 correction
- επανω epánō G1883 above
- επαρκεω eparkéō G1884 to avail
- επαρχια eparchía G1885 office of governor
- επαυλις épaulis G1886 farm
- επαυριον epaúrion G1887 the next day
+110 more words share this root (not shown).
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 137 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word επουρανιος appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Psalms 67:15 ἐπουράνιος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2032) appears in the Greek Septuagint.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2032) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
