Greek adjective · G2032
ἐπουράνιος
epouraniosep-oo-ran'-ee-os
heavenly
19 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: epouránios
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2032is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2032
above the sky
The King James renders it: celestial, (in) heaven(-ly), high.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
epouranios is rendered "heavenly". It stands 19 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Six of the uses stand in Hebrews, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 3:12If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
John 3:12ἐπουράνια
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's nineteen uses are in Hebrews.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- heavenly10
- heavenly realms5
- heavenly things1
- in the heavens1
- of heaven1
- to a heavenly1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 19, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐπουρανίοις5
- ἐπουράνια3
- ἐπουρανίου3
- ἐπουρανίων3
- ἐπουράνιοι1
- ἐπουράνιον1
- ἐπουράνιος1
- ἐπουρανίου.¶1
- ἐπουρανίῳ1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural5A-DPN
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular3A-GSF
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter plural2A-APN
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural2A-GPN
- adjective · accusative (object) · feminine singular1A-ASF
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1A-DSF
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1A-GPM
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1A-GSM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1A-NPM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter plural1A-NPN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1A-NSM
John
one use
If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
- ἐπουράνιαepouraniaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: heavenly
1 Corinthians
five uses
There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one degree, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another.
- ἐπουράνιαepouraniaadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: heavenly
- ἐπουρανίωνepouranionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: heavenly
As was the earthly man, so also are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.
- ἐπουράνιοςepouraniosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: heavenly
- ἐπουράνιοιepouranioiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: of heaven
And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.
- ἐπουρανίου.¶epouraniouadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: heavenly
Ephesians
five uses
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
- ἐπουρανίοιςepouranioisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: heavenly realms
which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,
- ἐπουρανίοιςepouranioisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: heavenly realms
And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
- ἐπουρανίοιςepouranioisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: heavenly realms
His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,
- ἐπουρανίοιςepouranioisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: heavenly realms
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
- ἐπουρανίοιςepouranioisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: heavenly realms
Philippians
one use
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
- ἐπουρανίωνepouranionadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: in the heavens
2 Timothy
one use
And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
- ἐπουράνιονepouranionadjective · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: heavenly
Hebrews
six uses
Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
- ἐπουρανίουepouraniouadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: heavenly
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
- ἐπουρανίουepouraniouadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: heavenly
The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
- ἐπουρανίωνepouranionadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: heavenly
So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
- ἐπουράνιαepouraniaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: heavenly things
Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
- ἐπουρανίουepouraniouadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: to a heavenly
Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels
- ἐπουρανίῳepouranioadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: heavenly
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.