epouranios · heavenly

What it means

epouranios (ἐπουράνιος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “heavenly”.

Of heaven.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Belonging to God's realm, above this earth.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• heavenly ×18
• those in heaven ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• John×1
• 1 Corinthians×5
• Ephesians×5
• Philippians×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×6

• John 3:12

  If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

• 1 Corinthians 15:40

  And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; but the glory of the heavenly is one kind, and that of the earthly is another.

• 1 Corinthians 15:48

  As was the one made of dust, so are also those made of dust; and as is the heavenly one, so are also the heavenly ones.

• 1 Corinthians 15:49

  And just as we bore the image of the one made of dust, we will also bear the image of the heavenly one.

• Ephesians 1:3

  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in the Messiah,

• Ephesians 1:20

  which he has worked in the Messiah when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,

• Ephesians 2:6

  and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in the Messiah Jesus,

• Ephesians 3:10

  so that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places through the assembly,

• Ephesians 6:12

  because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

• Philippians 2:10

  so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

• 2 Timothy 4:18

  The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

• Hebrews 3:1

  Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus,

• Hebrews 6:4

  For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become sharers in the Holy Spirit,

• Hebrews 8:5

  they worship in a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned when he was about to complete the tent: See, he says, that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.

• Hebrews 9:23

  It was necessary, then, for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

• Hebrews 11:16

  But as it is, they long for a better one, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

• Hebrews 12:22

  But you have drawn near to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels in festal gathering,

And 2 more times.