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μεσουράνημα

mesouránēma · G3321 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. high in the sky, midpoint in the sky, directly overhead, straight above in the sky

    A point or region of the sky directly above the earth

    Examples

    Revelation 8:13 Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in midheaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to those who live on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!”

    Revelation 14:6 And I saw another angel flying in midheaven with an eternal gospel to preach to those who live on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people;

    Revelation 19:17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in midheaven, “Come, assemble for the great feast of God,

How it’s used In 1 role

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3 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
High in the sky, midpoint in the sky, directly overhead, straight above in the sky1.10
This lexeme denotes a position directly overhead in the sky. Revelation 8:13 describes “an eagle flying in midheaven, saying with a loud voice, ‘Woe, woe, woe to those who live on the earth.’”
Word family 9 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

μέσος mésos · G3319 · among, with, in the middle · 58×μεσίτης mesítēs · G3316 · gobetween, mediator, one who reconciles · 6×μεσονύκτιον mesonýktion · G3317 · midnight · 4×μεσουράνημαmesouránēma · G3321μεσημβρία mesēmbría · G3314 · noon, midday, south · 2×Μεσοποταμία Mesopotamía · G3318 · Mesopotamia, a region of Asia · 2×μεσιτεύω mesiteúō · G3315 · to bring about an agreement, to cause an agreement · 1×μεσότοιχον mesótoichon · G3320 · dividing wall · 1×μεσόω mesóō · G3322 · to be in the middle of, to have something half over · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μεσουρανηματος, τό (from μεσουρανέω; the sun is said μεσουράνειν to be in mid-heaven,…
μεσουρανηματος, τό (from μεσουρανέω; the sun is said μεσουράνειν to be in mid-heaven, when it has reached the meridian), mid-heaven, the highest point in the heavens, which the sun occupies at noon. where what is done can be seen and heard by all: Rev 8:13 (cf. Düsterdieck at the passage); Rev 14:6; . (Manetho, Plutarch, Sextus Empiricus.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Regions Above the Earth3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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