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
Nehemiah
11 verses
Job
66 verses
Psalms
3936 verses
Proverbs
22 verses
Isaiah
2221 verses
Jeremiah
1110 verses
Lamentations
22 verses
Ezekiel
11 verses
Daniel
11 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Joel
33 verses
Habakkuk
11 verses
Haggai
22 verses
Zechariah
33 verses
Matthew
22 verses
Mark
11 verses
Luke
11 verses
Acts
22 verses
2 Corinthians
11 verses
Ephesians
11 verses
Hebrews
55 verses
2 Peter
55 verses
Revelation
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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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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Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
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The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
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Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
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For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
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Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;
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The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
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But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
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The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
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<<A Song of degrees.>> Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
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To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.
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Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
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Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights.
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Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.
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Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.
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Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.
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The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
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When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
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Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
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And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
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Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
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And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
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It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
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Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
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Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
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Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
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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