HEAVEN

Definition:

Hebrew-            galgal= rolling clouds

shachaq= thin cloud

shamayim= heavens, heaved up things

arabah= mixed clouds

ariphim= dropping clouds

 

Greek-             ouranos= sky, ari, heaven

ouranoi= heavens, sky

ouranothen= from heaven

epourania= the heavenlies, things in heaven

epouranios= heavenly, in or on heaven

ouranou= out of heaven

paradise meaning park, garden ground

 

1.      Genesis 1:1, 8 “God created the heaven(shamayim) and the earth.  God called the firmament(raqui=expanse)Heaven(shamayim).”

2.      Genesis 28:17 “Jacob: This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven(shamayim).”

3.      Exodus 32:13 “I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven(shamayim).”

4.      Deuteronomy 4:39 “The Lord He is God in heaven(shamayim) above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.”

5.      I Kings 8:23, 27 “There is no God like thee, in heaven(shamayim) above, or on the earth beneath.  The heaven(shamayim) and heaven(shalayim) of heavens(shamayim) cannot contain thee:”

6.      II Chronicles 6:14 “There is no God like thee in the heaven(shamayim).”

7.      Ezra 1:2 “The Lord God of heaven(shamayim).”

8.      Nehemiah 1:4 “I prayed before the God of heaven(shamayim).”

9.      Job 22 :12 “Is not God in the height of heaven(shamayim)?”

10.  Psalms 11:4 “The Lord’s throne is in heaven(shamayim):”

11.  Psalms 19:1 “The heavens(shamayim) declare the glory of God.”

12.  Psalms 103 :11, 19 “For as the heaven(shamayim) is high above the earth.  The Lord hath prepared His throne in the heavens(shamayim); and His kingdom ruleth over all.””

13.  Psalms 115:3, 16 “Our God is in the heavens(shamayim).  The heaven(shamayim), even the heavens(shamayim), are the Lord’s:”

14.  Psalms 139:8 “If I ascend up into heaven(shamayim), thou art there.”

15.  Proverbs 3:19 “The Lord established the heavens(shamayim).”

16.  Proverbs 30:4 “Who hath ascended up into heaven(shamayim), or descended?”

17.  Ecclesiastes 5:2 “God is in heaven(shamayim)”

18.  Isaiah 65:17 “For, behold, I create new heavens(shamayim) and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.”

19.  Isaiah 66:1 “The heaven(shamayim) is my throne.”

20.  Jeremiah 32:17 “thou hast made the heaven(shamayim) and the earth.”

21.  Ezekiel 1:1 “The heavens(shemayin) were opened and I saw visions of God.”

22.  Daniel 2:28 “There is a God in heaven(shemayin).”

23.  Daniel 7:13-14 “I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven(shemayin), and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought  Him near before Him.  And there was given Him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve Him: His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.”

24.  Lamentations 3:50 “The Lord look down and behold from heaven(shamayim).”

25.  Jonah 1:9 “I fear the Lord, the God of heaven(shamayim).”

26.  Malachi 3:10 “I will open you the windows of heaven(shamayim).”

27.  Matthew 3:17; Mark 1:11; John 1:32 “Lo a voice from heaven(ouranos), saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

28.  Matthew 5:12 “Great is your reward in heaven(ouranos).”

29.  Matthew 5:16 “Glorify your Father which is in heaven(ouranos).”

30.  Matthew 5:34Heaven(ouranos) is God’s throne.”

31.  Matthew 5:45, 48 “Your Father which is in heaven(ouranos).”

32.  Matthew 6:9-10; Luke 11:2 “Our Father which are in heaven(ouranos).”

33.  Matthew 18:10 “In heaven(ouranos) their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven(ouranos).”

34.  Matthew 22:30 “As the angels of God in heaven(ouranos).”

35.  Matthew 26:64 “Ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven(ouranos).”

36.  Mark 16:19; Luke 24:51 “Jesus was received up into heaven(ouranos), and sat on the right hand of God.”

37.  Luke 3:21, 27 “It came to pass, that Jesus also being baptize, and praying, the heaven(ouranos) was opened,  And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven(ouranos), which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in Thee am I well pleased.”

38.  Luke 23:43 “Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.”

39.  John 1:51 “Hereafter ye shall see heaven(ouranos)open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.”

40.  John 3:13 “No man hath ascended up to heaven(ouranos), but He that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven(ouranos).”

41.  John 6:38, 42 “I came down from heaven(ouranos).”

42.  John 12:28 “Father, glorify thy Name.  Then came a voice form heaven(ouranos), saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

43.  John 14:2-3 “In my Father’s house are many mansions:  if it were not so, I would have told you.  I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”

44.  Acts 1:9-11 “While they beheld, He was taken up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight.  And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven(ouranos) as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee,, why stand ye gazing up into heaven(ouranos?  This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven(ouranso), shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven(ouronos).””

45.  Acts 7:49Heaven (ouranso)is My throne, and earth is my footstool;”

46.  Acts 7:55-56 “Stephen looked up stedfastly into heaven(ouranos), and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,  And said, Behold, I see the heavens(ouranoi) opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.”

47.  Acts 9:3-5 “Suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven(ouranos): And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?  And he said, Who art thou, Lord?  And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest:”

48.  Acts 10:11 “Peter saw heaven(ouranos) opened.”

49.  II Corinthians 5:1-2 “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens(ouranoi).  For this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven(ouranos).”

50.  II Corinthians 12:2, 4 “I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago,(whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the boyy, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)  such an one caught up to the third heaven(ouranos).  How that he was caught up into paradise.””

51.  Ephesians 6:9 “Your Master is in heaven(ouranos).”

52.  I Thessalonians 1:10 “Wait for His son from heaven(ouranos).”

53.  I Thessalonians 4:16 “For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven (ouranos)with a shout.”

54.  II Thessalonians 1:7 “The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven(ouranos) with His might angels.”

55.  Hebrews 9:24 “For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven(ouranos) itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:”

56.  I Peter 3:13, 22 “We, according to God’s promise, look for new heavens(ouranoi) and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.  Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven(ouranos), and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto Him.”

57.  Revelation 2:7 “To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.”

58.  Revelation 21:1-3 “And I John saw a new heaven(ouranos) and a new earth: for the first heaven(ouranso) and earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.  And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven(ouranos), prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.”


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