adjective
ouranios
Strong’sG3770
heavenly
stem ourani-9 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
οὐράνιος, -ον
(cl. usually -α, -ον), [in LXX: De 28:12 A (שָׁמַיִם), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3770 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidoo-ran'-ee-os
celestial, i.e. belonging to or coming from the sky
Fromfrom G3772;
King Jamesheavenly.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
also ος, ον Refs 5th c.BC+:— heavenly, dwelling in heaven, γέννα Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐράνιαι the goddesses, Refs 5th c.BC+the gods, Refs; of special gods, Θέμις οὐ. Refs 5th c.BC+; αἱ οὐ. θεοί, Demeter and Kore, Refs
2 generally, in or of heaven, ἀστήρ Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐ. θεᾶς βρέτας fallen from heaven, Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐ. ὕδατα, i.e. rain, Refs 5th c.BC+; so τὰ οὐ. alone, = rains, Refs 4th c.BC+; οὐ. ἄχος, of a storm, Refs 5th c.BC+ (where it may be metaphorically, compare below Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ οὐ. the phenomena of the heavens, Refs 5th c.BC+
II reaching to heaven, high as heaven, κίων, of Aetna, Refs 5th c.BC+; σκέλος οὐ. ἐκλακτίζειν, ῥίπτειν, kick up sky-high, Refs 5th c.BC+; of sounds, ὀμφὰν οὐ. Refs 5th c.BC+: metaphorically, mountainous, colossal, οὐ. ἄχη Refs 5th c.BC+
III sky-blue, λίθος κυανωτάτη καὶ -ία ἰδεῖν Refs 2nd c.AD+
IV οὐράνιον, τό, name of an eye-salve, Refs 4th c.AD+
V adverb -ίως from the point of view of heaven, opposed to γηΐνως, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | ouranios7×οὐράνιος | ouranias | ouraniem | ouraniois | ouraniais | ouranieim |
| object accusative | ouranion | ouranian | ouranioin | ouraniain | ||
| direct address vocative | ouranior | ouraniar | ouranioir | ouraniair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | ouraniou | ouraniau1×οὐρανίου | ouranieu | ouranioiu | ouraniaiu | ouranieiu |
| to, for dative | ouranio | ourania1×οὐρανίῳ | ouranie | ouranioi | ouraniai | ouraniei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
ourani is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
9 occurrences, every one of them listed
ouranios“heavenly”subjectnominative singular7×
Matthew 5:48… teleiois hōs tos patros vu tos ouranios teleios atō.Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.[’’]
Matthew 6:14… kai vi tos patros vu tos ouranios;… you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Matthew 6:26… apothēkain, kai tos patros vu tos ouranios trefatō auteim; ouk vis mallon diaferavō …… gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not …
Matthew 6:32… oidatē gar tos patros vu tos ouranios hoti chrēzavō houteiu hapanteiu.… after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
Matthew 15:13… ouk futeuata tos patros mu tos ouranios ekriziti.… Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be …
Matthew 18:35Houtōs kai tos patros mu tos ouranios poiati vi ean mē afiēkaveia hekastos …That is how My heavenly Father will treat each of you …
Matthew 23:9… gar atō vu tos patros tos ouranios;… have one Father, who is in heaven.
ouraniau“heavenly”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 2:13… geneta sun to angelo plēthem stratiau ouraniau ainarōntoiu ton theon kai legarōntoiu;… angel a great multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying:
ourania“heavenly”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 26:19… basilevor Agrippor, ouk genema apeithos ta ourania optasia,… I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.