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οὐρανός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οὐρανός οὐρανοῦ

Structure: οὐραν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: only in sg.

Sense

  1. the vaulted sky, on which the stars were attached and the sun traveled: sky, heaven
  2. the region above this vault, the home of the gods
  3. (philosophy) the universe
  4. anything shaped like the sky: vaulted ceiling, tent

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative οὐρανός οὐρανώ οὐρανοί
Genitive οὐρανοῦ οὐρανοῖν οὐρανῶν
Dative οὐρανῷ οὐρανοῖν οὐρανοῖς
Accusative οὐρανόν οὐρανώ οὐρανούς
Vocative οὐρανέ οὐρανώ οὐρανοί

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὁ κατοικῶν ἐν οὐρανοῖσ ἐκγελάσεται αὐτούσ, καὶ ὁ Κύριοσ ἐκμυκτηριεῖ αὐτούσ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 2:4)
  • ὅτι εἶπασ. εἰσ τὸν αἰῶνα ἔλεοσ οἰκοδομηθήσεται. ἐν τοῖσ οὐρανοῖσ ἑτοιμασθήσεται ἡ ἀλήθειά σου. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 88:3)
  • καὶ νῦν ἰδοὺ ἐν οὐρανοῖσ ὁ μάρτυσ μου, ὁ δὲ συνίστωρ μου ἐν ὑψίστοισ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 16:19)
  • καὶ μόλισ εἰκάζομεν τὰ ἐπὶ γῆσ καί τὰ ἐν χερσὶν εὑρίσκομεν μετὰ πόνου. τὰ δὲ ἐν οὐρανοῖσ τίσ ἐξιχνίασε̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 9:16)
  • ἔστι γὰρ Θεὸσ ἡμῶν ἐν οὐρανοῖσ, ᾧ ἡμεῖσ λατρεύομεν, δυνατὸσ ἐξελέσθαι ἡμᾶσ ἐκ τῆσ καμίνου τοῦ πυρὸσ τῆσ καιομένησ, καὶ ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν σου, βασιλεῦ, ρύσεται ἡμᾶσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 3:17)

Synonyms

  1. the universe

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