Bible word study

Ouranos (Strong’s G3772): Meaning in the Bible

Ouranos (οὐρανός) is the Greek word numbered G3772 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as the sky; by extension, heaven (as the abode of God); by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel (Christianity). In the King James Bible it is translated air, heaven(-ly), sky..

• Original wordοὐρανός
• Transliterationouranós
• Pronunciationoo-ran-os'
• Strong’s numberG3772
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. perhaps from the same as G3735 (through the idea of elevation);

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Ouranos appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Ouranos (G3772) stands behind 283 English renderings in 263 verses across 20 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Matthew (84), Revelation (53), Luke (37).

How the King James Bible renders Ouranos, by count

• heaven206 of 283 (73 percent)
• of heaven39 of 283 (14 percent)
• heavens17 of 283 (6 percent)
• of the air8 of 283 (3 percent)
• air2 of 283 (1 percent)
• of the sky2 of 283 (1 percent)

Three places to read Ouranos

• Matthew 3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
• Mark 13:25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
• Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Ouranos in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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