heavens
Speech parts
1. heavens - Noun
2. heavens - Verb
3. heavens - Interjection
4. Heavens - Proper noun
Meaning
the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected
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3 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
5. Ridiculous arrogance of the Gnostics who refuse to acknowledge the hierarchy of created gods and spirits and say that they alone are sons of God and superior to the heavens (ch. 9).
After dispatching Tiamat with the "arrows of his winds" down her throat and constructing the heavens with the arch of her ribs, Enlil places her tail in the sky as the Milky Way, and her crying eyes become the source of the Tigris and Euphrates.
As a regime goes into its twilight zone, it will drown as many families and livelihoods as possible, while they prepare their own safe heavens in Dubai and South Africa.
" Another passage the Cappadocian Fathers quoted from was "By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host."
Although the earliest maps known are of the heavens, geographic maps of territory have a very long tradition and exist from ancient times.