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
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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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H8064
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
H8064
I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
H8064
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
H8064
Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
H8064
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
H8064
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
H8064
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
H8064
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
H8064
And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
H8064
And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
H8064
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
H8064
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
H8064
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
H8064
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
H8064
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
H8064
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
H8064
I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
H8064
For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
H8064
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
H8065
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
H8065
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
H8064
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
H8064
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
H8064
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
H8064
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
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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