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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

  • ΚΑΙ συνετελέσθησαν ὁ οὐρανὸσ καὶ ἡ γῆ καὶ πᾶσ ὁ κόσμοσ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 2:1)
  • ἰδοὺ Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ σου ὁ οὐρανὸσ καὶ ὁ οὐρανὸσ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, ἡ γῆ καὶ πάντα ὅσα ἐστὶν ἐν αὐτῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 10:14)
  • καὶ ἔσται σοι ὁ οὐρανὸσ ὁ ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆσ σου χαλκοῦσ, καὶ ἡ γῆ ἡ ὑποκάτω σου σιδηρᾶ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 28:23)
  • καὶ κατασκηνώσει Ἰσραὴλ πεποιθὼσ μόνοσ ἐπὶ γῆσ Ἰακώβ, ἐπὶ σίτῳ καὶ οἴνῳ, καὶ ὁ οὐρανὸσ αὐτῷ συνεφφὴσ δρόσῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 33:28)

Synonyms

  1. the universe

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