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οὐρανός

heaven

‘heaven’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G3772 Strong's Greek
ouranós Transliteration
/oo-ran-os'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 275 appearances

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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.

ουρανος (ouranós) is a Greek noun most often rendered “heaven.” Debuting at Matthew 3:2, it then recurs through the corpus. The Greek New Testament uses it across 257 verses — common. Matthew dominates its distribution — 74 of 257 verses. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
air
Modern gloss
heaven
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G3772 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 →

257
distinct verses
The word appears in 257 distinct verses.
19 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 19 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 3:2
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 3:2.
Revelation 21:10
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 21:10.
#60
by frequency
Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 60 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 257 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 141 · 55%
  • Acts 24 · 9%
  • Pauline Epistles 21 · 8%
  • General Epistles 21 · 8%
  • Revelation 50 · 19%

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 257 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 141 verses · 55%
  • Johannine 67 verses · 26%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 57 verses · 22%
  • Revelation 50 verses · 19%
  • Pauline corpus 21 verses · 8%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 11 verses · 4%
  • Hebrews 10 verses · 4%

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: Heaven 247×, Heavens 18×, Air 10×
  • American Standard Version: Heaven 242×, Heavens 25×, Heavenly 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Heaven 227×, Heavens 18×, Sky 15×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Heaven 163×, Heavens 85×, Sky 26×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3772 across 284 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Heaven” 247×
  • “Heavens” 18×
  • “Air” 10×
  • “Sky” 5×

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 G3772 across 272 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Heaven” 242×
  • “Heavens” 25×
  • “Heavenly” 2×

Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G3772 across 272 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Heaven” 227×
  • “Heavens” 18×
  • “Sky” 15×
  • “Air” 9×
  • “Heavenly” 2×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3772 across 279 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Heaven” 163×
  • “Heavens” 85×
  • “Sky” 26×
  • “Of” 2×

Plus 3 renderings that appear 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.

  1. the vaulted expanse of the sky with all things visible in it
  2. the region above the sidereal heavens…

Word origin

Derived from ορος (óros) (G3735) — mountain.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TDNT: 13:17,7

Perhaps from the same as G3735 (through the idea of elevation ); the sky ; by extension heaven (as the abode of God); by implication happiness power eternity ; specifically the Gospel ( Christianity ): - air heaven ([-ly]) sky.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 13 distinct written forms G3772 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
οὐρανοῦ ouranoû Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 6:26 92
οὐρανῶν ouranō̂n Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 3:2 44
οὐρανοῖς ouranoîs Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 5:12 36
οὐρανῷ ouranō̂ Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 5:34 36
οὐρανὸν ouranòn Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 14:19 29
οὐρανόν ouranón Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Luke 3:21 13
οὐρανὸς ouranòs Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 5:18 8
οὐρανοὶ ouranoì Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 Peter 3:5 5
οὐρανός ouranós Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 16:2 4
οὐρανοὺς ouranoùs Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Mark 1:10 3
οὐρανοί ouranoí Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 3:16 2
οὐρανούς ouranoús Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Acts 2:34 2
οὐρανέ ourané Noun, Vocative, Singular, Masculine Revelation 18:20 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3772, 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

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ουρανος appears 500 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 454 verses in 32 books.

500
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
454
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
32 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 32 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3772) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 454. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3772) 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.

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