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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

  • 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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