For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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οὐρανός
Vocabulary form:
oujranovV, -ou:, oJ
Definition:
heaven, sky
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
273
GK:
4041
Root:
oujrano
Cognates:
Uranus is the Greek god of heaven.
Mnemonics:
Uranus is up in the sky.
Mnemonic Singing:
Let every heart prepare Him room,
and heaven and nature sing,
and heaven and nature sing,
and heaven, and heaven and nature sing.
Notes:
You will often find oujranovV in the plural. This is the result of a Jewish way of speaking, and you can translate the plural as a singular if it fits the context.
Biblical Concordance
| Luke 10:20 | However, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names have been recorded in heaven.” (ouranois | οὐρανοῖς | dat pl masc) |
| Luke 10:21 | At this time Jesus was filled with joy by the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc) and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was well-pleasing in your sight. |
| Luke 11:13 | If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” |
| Luke 11:16 | Others, to test him, kept demanding from him a sign from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc). |
| Luke 12:33 | Sell your possessions and give alms. Make for yourselves moneybags that do not wear out, a treasure unfailing in heaven (ouranois | οὐρανοῖς | dat pl masc), where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. |
| Luke 12:56 | Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc). How is it that you do not know how to interpret this present time? |
| Luke 13:19 | It is like a mustard seed that a man took and threw into his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc) made nests in its branches.” |
| Luke 15:7 | I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven (ouranō | οὐρανῷ | dat sg masc) over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance. |
| Luke 15:18 | I will leave this place and go to my father, and I will say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc) and before you; |
| Luke 15:21 | And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc) and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ |
| Luke 16:17 | It is easier for heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc) and earth to pass away than for the smallest part of a single letter in the law to lose its force. |
| Luke 17:24 | For just as the lightning, when it flashes, lights up from one end of heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc) to the other, so will be the Son of Man in his day. |
| Luke 17:29 | but on the day in which Lot went out of Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc) and destroyed them all. |
| Luke 18:13 | The tax collector, however, standing at a distance, would not even raise his eyes to heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc), but kept beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ |
| Luke 18:22 | Upon hearing this, Jesus said to him, “One thing you still lack: sell all that you have and distribute the proceeds to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven (ouranois | οὐρανοῖς | dat pl masc). Then come, follow me.” |
| Luke 19:38 | saying, “Blessed is the coming one, the king, the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven (ouranō | οὐρανῷ | dat sg masc) and glory in the highest!” |
| Luke 20:4 | The baptism of John, was it authorized from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc) or did it come from men?” |
| Luke 20:5 | They reasoned among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc) then he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’ |
| Luke 21:11 | there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and plagues. There will be dreadful portents and great signs from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc). |
| Luke 21:26 | people fainting with fear and foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens (ouranōn | οὐρανῶν | gen pl masc) will be shaken. |
| Luke 21:33 | Heaven (ouranos | οὐρανός | nom sg masc) and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. |
| Luke 22:43 | there appeared to him an from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc), strengthening him. |
| Luke 24:51 | While he was blessing them, he departed from them and was carried up into heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc). |
| John 1:32 | Then John testified, saying, “I saw the Spirit coming down as a dove from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc), and it remained on him. |
| John 1:51 | Then he said to him, “I tell you the solemn truth: you will see heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc) standing open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” |
| John 3:13 | No one has gone up to heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc) except the one who came down out of heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc), the Son of Man. |
| John 3:27 | John responded, saying, “A man cannot receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc). |
| John 3:31 | He who comes from above is superior to all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc) is superior to all. |
| John 6:31 | Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc) to eat.’” |
| John 6:32 | Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc), but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc). |
| John 6:33 | For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc) and gives life to the world.” |
| John 6:38 | For I have come down from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc), not to do my own will but to do the will of him who sent me. |
| John 6:41 | Then the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc) |
| John 6:42 | And they were saying, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc) |
| John 6:50 | But here is the bread that comes down from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc), so that one may eat of it and not die. |
| John 6:51 | I am the living bread that came down from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc). If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh — given on behalf of the world.” |
| John 6:58 | This is the bread that came down from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc); it is not like that which your fathers ate and died. The one who feeds on this bread will live forever.” |
| John 12:28 | Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc) “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” |
| John 17:1 | When Jesus had finished saying these things, he lifted up his eyes to heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc) and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that your Son may glorify you, |
| Acts 1:10 | And while they were gazing into the sky (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc), as he was going, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, |
| Acts 1:11 | and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into the sky (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc)? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc), will come in the same way as you saw him going into heaven.” (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc) |
| Acts 2:2 | And suddenly from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc) there came a sound like a violent blast of wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. |
| Acts 2:5 | Now there were living in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc). |
| Acts 2:19 | And I will show wonders in the heavens (ouranō | οὐρανῷ | dat sg masc) above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky vapor. |
| Acts 2:34 | For David did not ascend into the heavens (ouranous | οὐρανούς | acc pl masc), but he himself says, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, |
| Acts 3:21 | whom heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc) must receive until the time of restoration of all things, which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago. |
| Acts 4:12 | And salvation is in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc) given among men by which we must be saved.” |
| Acts 4:24 | When they heard this, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, you who made the heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc) and the earth and the sea, and everything that is in them, |
| Acts 7:42 | But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc), as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? |
| Acts 7:49 | ‘Heaven (ouranos | οὐρανός | nom sg masc) is my throne, and earth is the footstool for my feet. What sort of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? |