Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Read in context →And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
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shâmayim · shaw-mah'-yim
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
Strong's KJV usage: air, × astrologer, heaven(-s).
Strong's first: Genesis 1:1Strong's last: Malachi 3:10
Open full H8064 profile →ouranós · oo-ran-os'
the sky; by extension, heaven (as the abode of God); by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel (Christianity)
Strong's KJV usage: :--air, heaven(-ly), sky.
Strong's first: Matthew 3:2Strong's last: Revelation 21:10
Open full G3772 profile →shâmayin · shaw-mah'-yin
Strong's KJV usage: heaven.
Strong's first: Ezra 5:11Strong's last: Daniel 7:27
Open full H8065 profile →mesouránēma · mes-oo-ran'-ay-mah
mid-sky
Strong's KJV usage: :--midst of heaven.
Strong's first: Revelation 8:13Strong's last: Revelation 19:17
Open full G3321 profile →ouranóthen · oo-ran-oth'-en
from the sky
Strong's KJV usage: :--from heaven.
Strong's first: Acts 14:17Strong's last: Acts 26:13
Open full G3771 profile →shachaq · shakh'-ak
a powder (as beaten small); by analogy, a thin vapor; by extension, the firmament
Strong's KJV usage: cloud, small dust, heaven, sky.
Strong's first: Psalms 89:6Strong's last: Psalms 89:37
Open full H7834 profile →epouránios · ep-oo-ran'-ee-os
above the sky
Strong's KJV usage: :--celestial, (in) heaven(-ly), high.
Strong's first: Philippians 2:10Strong's last: Philippians 2:10
Open full G2032 profile →échō · ekh'-o
to hold (used in very various applications, literally or figuratively, direct or remote; such as possession; ability, contiuity, relation, or condition)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be (able, X hold, possessed with), accompany, + begin to amend, can(+ -not), X conceive, count, diseased, do + eat, + enjoy, + fear, following, have, hold, keep, + lack, + go to law, lie, + must needs, + of necessity, + need, next, + recover, + reign, + rest, + return, X sick, take for, + tremble, + uncircumcised, use.
Strong's first: Revelation 18:1Strong's last: Revelation 18:1
Open full G2192 profile →galgal · gal-gal'
a wheel; by analogy, a whirlwind; also dust (as whirled)
Strong's KJV usage: heaven, rolling thing, wheel.
Strong's first: Psalms 77:18Strong's last: Psalms 77:18
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The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
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HEAVEN, noun hev'n.
1. The region or expanse which surrounds the earth, and which appears above and around us, like an immense arch or vault, in which are seen the sun, moon and stars.
2. Among christians, the part of space in which the omnipresent Jehovah is supposed to afford more sensible manifestations of his glory. Hence this is called the habitation of God, and is represented as the residence of angels and blessed spirits. Deuteronomy 26:15.
The sanctified heart loves heaven for its purity, and God for his goodness.
3. Among pagans, the residence of the celestial gods.
4. The sky or air; the region of the atmosphere; or an elevated place; in a very indefinite sense. Thus we speak of a mountain reaching to heaven; the fowls of heaven; the clouds of heaven; hail or rain from heaven Jeremiah 9:10. Job 35:11.
Their cities are walled to heaven Deuteronomy 1:10.
5. The Hebrews acknowledged three heavens; the air or aerial heavens; the firmament in which the stars are supposed to be placed; and the heaven of heavens, or third heaven the residence of Jehovah.
6. Modern philosophers divide the expanse above and around the earth into two parts, the atmosphere or aerial heaven and the etherial heaven beyond the region of the air, in which there is supposed to be a thin, unresisting medium called ether.
7. The Supreme Power; the Sovereign of heaven; god; as prophets sent by heaven
I have sinned against heaven Luke 15:7.
Shun the impious profaneness which scoffs at the
institution of heaven
8. The pagan deities; celestials.
And show the heavens more just.
9. Elevation; sublimity.
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention.
10. Supreme felicity; great happiness.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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