Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
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Heavens
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Revelation 12:12
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
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Genesis
32 verses
Deuteronomy
33 verses
Judges
11 verses
2 Samuel
11 verses
1 Kings
11 verses
1 Chronicles
33 verses
2 Chronicles
66 verses
Ezra
11 verses
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11 verses
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66 verses
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Proverbs
22 verses
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2221 verses
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1110 verses
Lamentations
22 verses
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11 verses
Daniel
11 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Joel
33 verses
Habakkuk
11 verses
Haggai
22 verses
Zechariah
33 verses
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22 verses
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11 verses
Luke
11 verses
Acts
22 verses
2 Corinthians
11 verses
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11 verses
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55 verses
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55 verses
Revelation
11 verses
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שָׁמַיִם
shâmayim · shaw-mah'-yim
109 times translated as this KJV form419 total Strong's occurrences
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).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 2:1Strong's last: Zechariah 12:1
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ouranós · oo-ran-os'
19 times translated as this KJV form283 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 3:16Strong's last: Revelation 12:12
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shâmayin · shaw-mah'-yin
3 times translated as this KJV form38 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: heaven.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 10:11Strong's last: Daniel 4:26
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ʻărâbâh · ar-aw-baw'
1 times translated as this KJV form61 total Strong's occurrences
a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea
Strong's KJV usage: Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness. See also 1026.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 68:4Strong's last: Psalms 68:4
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ʻârîyph · aw-reef'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
the sky (as drooping at the horizon)
Strong's KJV usage: heaven.
Strong's first: Isaiah 5:30Strong's last: Isaiah 5:30
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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
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These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
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These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
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Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
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Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
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Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.
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LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
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He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
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But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
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For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
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Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.
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But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
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But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
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But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
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Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
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Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
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Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.
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And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
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Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
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Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
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So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
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Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
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Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
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By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
English meaning and historical usage.
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heaven
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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