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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

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

  • καὶ ἐκάλεσεν ὁ Θεὸσ τὸ στερέωμα οὐρανόν. καὶ εἶδεν ὁ Θεόσ, ὅτι καλόν, καὶ ἐγένετο ἑσπέρα καὶ ἐγένετο πρωί̈, ἡμέρα δευτέρα. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 1:8)
  • Αὕτη ἡ βίβλοσ γενέσεωσ οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆσ, ὅτε ἐγένετο. ᾗ ἡμέρᾳ ἐποίησε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 2:4)
  • καὶ εὐλόγησε τὸν Ἅβραμ καὶ εἶπεν. εὐλογημένοσ Ἅβραμ τῷ Θεῷ τῷ ὑψίστῳ, ὃσ ἔκτισε τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 14:19)
  • εἶπε δὲ Ἅβραμ πρὸσ τὸν βασιλέα Σοδόμων. ἐκτενῶ τὴν χεῖρά μου πρὸσ Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν τὸν ὕψιστον, ὃσ ἔκτισε τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν, (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 14:22)
  • ἐξήγαγε δὲ αὐτὸν ἔξω καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ. ἀνάβλεψον δὴ εἰσ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ ἀρίθμησον τοὺσ ἀστέρασ, εἰ δυνήσῃ ἐξαριθμῆσαι αὐτούσ. καὶ εἶπεν. οὕτωσ ἔσται τὸ σπέρμα σου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 15:5)

Synonyms

  1. the universe

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