Vocabulary Form
οὐρανός, -οῦ, ὁ
Definition

heaven, sky

Erasmian
Modern
Root
οὐρανο
Frequency
273
GK
4041
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.

Song
Verse

“May your kingdom come, may your will be done, on earth as it is in οὐρανός.” (Matt 6:10)

“Look at the birds of the οὐρανός. They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.” (Matt 6:26)

Notes

You will often find οὐρανός 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

Acts 7:55 But Stephen, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked right into heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc) and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
Acts 7:56 And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens (ouranous | οὐρανούς | acc pl masc) opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
Acts 9:3 As he traveled along, approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc) shone all around him;
Acts 10:11 and he saw the heavens (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc) opened and certain object descending, like a great sheet, being let down by its four corners upon the earth.
Acts 10:12 In it were all kinds of four-footed and reptiles and birds of the air (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc).
Acts 10:16 This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up at once to heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc).
Acts 11:5 “I was in the city of Joppa, praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object descending, like a great sheet being let down by its four corners from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc), and it came close to me.
Acts 11:6 I looked into it closely I saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the air (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc).
Acts 11:9 But the voice replied a second time from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc), ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider common.’
Acts 11:10 This happened three times, and again everything was drawn up into heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc).
Acts 14:15 saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? For we too are men subject to the same frailties as you, bringing you good news to turn away from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc) and the earth and the sea and everything in them,
Acts 17:24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc) and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands,
Acts 22:6 As I journeyed and came near to Damascus, about noon suddenly out of heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc) there flashed a brilliant light all around me.
Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc) against all ungodliness and the unrighteousness of those who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness,
Romans 10:6 But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (ouranon | οὐρανόν | acc sg masc) (that is, to bring Christ down),
1 Corinthians 8:5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven (ouranō | οὐρανῷ | dat sg masc) or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”),
1 Corinthians 15:47 The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second man is of heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc).
2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens (ouranois | οὐρανοῖς | dat pl masc).
2 Corinthians 5:2 For indeed in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling place,
2 Corinthians 12:2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago — whether in the body I do not know or apart from the body I do not know, only God knows — such a man was caught up to the third heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc).
Galatians 1:8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven (ouranou | οὐρανοῦ | gen sg masc), should preach a gospel at odds with the one we already preached to you, let him be accursed.
Ephesians 1:10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring everything together in Christ, things in heaven (ouranois | οὐρανοῖς | dat pl masc) and things on earth.
Ephesians 3:15 from whom every family in heaven (ouranois | οὐρανοῖς | dat pl masc) and on earth derives its name,
Ephesians 4:10 He who descended is himself the one who also ascended far above all the heavens (ouranōn | οὐρανῶν | gen pl masc), so that he might fill all things.
Ephesians 6:9 And masters, do the same to them, giving up the use of threats, knowing that the one who is both their master and yours is in heaven (ouranois | οὐρανοῖς | dat pl masc), and that there is no favoritism with him.