οὐρανός
heaven
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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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
3 verses where G3772 appears in the Dative case in the Book of Hebrews. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Hebrews
- Hebrews 8:1 οὐρανοῖς n dat pl masc Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
- Hebrews 9:23 οὐρανοῖς n dat pl masc 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 12:23 οὐρανοῖς n dat pl masc to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
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
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.
- #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
- Matthew 74 verses 29%
- Revelation 50 verses 19%
- Luke 33 verses 13%
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- the vaulted expanse of the sky with all things visible in it
- the region above the sidereal heavens…
Word origin
Derived from ορος (óros) (G3735) — mountain.
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
- ορεγομαι orégomai G3713 to stretch out
- ορεινος oreinós G3714 mountainous
- ορθος orthós G3717 straight
- ορθρος órthros G3722 dawn
- ορνις órnis G3733 bird
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
- Genesis 1:1 οὐρανός
- Exodus 9:8 οὐρανός
- Leviticus 26:19 οὐρανός
- Deuteronomy 1:10 οὐρανός
- Joshua 2:11 οὐρανός
- Judges 5:4 οὐρανός
- 1 Samuel 2:10 οὐρανός
- 2 Samuel 18:9 οὐρανός
- 1 Kings 8:22 οὐρανός
- 2 Kings 1:10 οὐρανός
- 1 Chronicles 16:26 οὐρανός
- 2 Chronicles 2:5 οὐρανός
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.
- Genesis 1:1 οὐρανός In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Genesis 1:8 οὐρανός God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
- Genesis 1:9 οὐρανός God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:14 οὐρανός God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
- Genesis 1:15 οὐρανός and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:17 οὐρανός God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,
- Genesis 1:20 οὐρανός God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
- Genesis 1:26 οὐρανός God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
- Genesis 1:28 οὐρανός God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
- Genesis 1:30 οὐρανός To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food." And it was so.
- Genesis 2:1 οὐρανός The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
- Genesis 2:4 οὐρανός This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and the heavens.
- Genesis 2:19 οὐρανός Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
- Genesis 2:20 οὐρανός The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
- Genesis 6:7 οὐρανός Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
- Genesis 6:17 οὐρανός I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
- Genesis 7:3 οὐρανός Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
- Genesis 7:11 οὐρανός In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.
- Genesis 7:19 οὐρανός The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
- Genesis 7:23 οὐρανός Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
- Genesis 8:2 οὐρανός The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
- Genesis 9:2 οὐρανός The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.
- Genesis 11:4 οὐρανός They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
- Genesis 14:19 οὐρανός He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:
- Genesis 14:22 οὐρανός Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
- Genesis 15:5 οὐρανός Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
- Genesis 19:24 οὐρανός Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
- Genesis 21:17 οὐρανός God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
- Genesis 22:11 οὐρανός The angel of Yahweh called to him out of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."
- Genesis 22:15 οὐρανός The angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,
- Genesis 22:17 οὐρανός that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
- Genesis 24:3 οὐρανός I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
- Genesis 24:7 οὐρανός Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
- Genesis 26:4 οὐρανός I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
- Genesis 27:28 οὐρανός God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
- Genesis 27:39 οὐρανός Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.
- Genesis 28:12 οὐρανός He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
- Genesis 28:17 οὐρανός He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."
- Genesis 40:17 οὐρανός In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head."
- Genesis 40:19 οὐρανός Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you."
- Genesis 49:25 οὐρανός Even by the God of your father, who will help you, By the Almighty, who will bless you, With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that lies below, Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
- Exodus 9:8 οὐρανός Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.
- Exodus 9:10 οὐρανός They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became a boil breaking forth with boils on man and on animal.
- Exodus 9:22 οὐρανός Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch forth your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt."
- Exodus 9:23 οὐρανός Moses stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 10:13 οὐρανός Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
- Exodus 10:21 οὐρανός Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt."
- Exodus 10:22 οὐρανός Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
- Exodus 16:4 οὐρανός Then said Yahweh to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.
- Exodus 17:14 οὐρανός Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."
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.