Word Finder - heaven

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The sky, specifically:

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The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:

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The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically:

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(by extension) Any paradise; any blissful place or experience.

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(by extension) A state of bliss; a peaceful ecstasy.

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(with a modifier) Similarly blissful afterlives, places, or states for particular people, animals, or objects.

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To transport to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed.

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To beatify, enchant, or please greatly.

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To beautify, to make into a paradise.

May the kingdom of Heaven be his!

He's gone to heaven now.

Heaven is under our feet is well as over our heads.

What in the name of heaven and hell gave you that idea?

Why does the dear Father in heaven think it best for us to have very great sorrow sometimes?

There was an unpleasant Englishman who declared in 1699 that he found" Money Their God, and Large Possessions the only Heaven they Covet."

Did heaven need satellite television?

When you die and go to heaven, you have universal knowledge and understanding.

Heaven is a perfectly marvelous place.

Theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what besides!

However, when I have thought to indulge myself in this respect, and lay their Heaven under an obligation by maintaining certain poor persons in all respects as comfortably as I maintain myself, and have even ventured so far as to make them the offer, they have one and all unhesitatingly preferred to remain poor.

If we had not said that till the evening, heaven knows what might not have happened.

Yahweh ceased to be exclusively regarded as god of the atmosphere, worshipped in a distant mountain, Horeb-Sinai, situated in the south country (negebh),and moving in the clouds of heaven before the Israelites in the desert, but he came to be associated with Israel's life in Canaan.

Outside the Forbidden City the most noteworthy building is the Temple of Heaven, which stands in the outer or Chinese city.

And if railroads are not built, how shall we get to heaven in season?

He felt like a piece of heaven!

Yet even they expect to go to heaven at last.

Assuming quite the pose of a society woman (heaven knows when and where she had learned it) she talked with her partner, fanning herself and smiling over the fan.

Yes, first I thought that we are driving along and imagining that we are going home, but that heaven knows where we are really going in the darkness, and that we shall arrive and suddenly find that we are not in Otradnoe, but in Fairyland.

Turning southwards we come again to the Forbidden City, the central portion of which forms the imperial palace, where, in halls which for the magnificence of their proportions and barbaric splendour are probably not to be surpassed anywhere, the Son of Heaven holds his court.

The subjects are scenes from the Old and New Testaments, and the Last Judgment, with Heaven and Hell.

She wore no makeup but some alluring perfume made her smell like heaven.

Then comes an account of the casting down of Satan from heaven.

By such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last.

It was as if God had taken the boy to heaven.

Oh, for heaven's sake, Carmen, they're goats, not race horses.

She is the personification of the earth suffering from drought, on which the fertilizing rain descends from heaven.

The most significant was the liberation, at the moment of kindling the funeral pyre, of an eagle which was supposed to bear the emperor's soul to heaven.

It was said that Zeus threw it down from heaven when Ilus was founding the city of Ilium, Odysseus and Diomedes carried it off from the temple of Athena, and thus made the capture of Troy possible.

Whatever grew on that tree was thought to be a gift from heaven, more especially the mistletoe.

Gnosticism is to a great extent dominated by the idea that it is above all and in the highest degree important for the Gnostic's soul to be enabled to find its way back through the lower worlds and spheres of heaven ruled by the Seven to the kingdom of light of the supreme deity of heaven.

Among her particular worshippers, at Argos and Samos, Hera was much more than the queen of heaven and the marriagegoddess.

Mythologically she was the daughter (or the eye) of the sun-god Re; but she became Lady of Heaven and Queen of Earth, and even Lady of the land of the West, the mysterious habitation of the dead.

Shall we with pains erect a heaven of blue glass over ourselves, though when it is done we shall be sure to gaze still at the true ethereal heaven far above, as if the former were not?

He ascended into heaven, 7.

And ascended into heaven and sat on the right hand of the Father, 7.

Ascended into Heaven, 7.

Roscher (Nektar and Ambrosia, 1883; see also his article in Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologic) nectar and ambrosia were originally only different forms of the same substance - honey, regarded as a dew, like manna, fallen from heaven, which was used both as food and drink.

First of all John is bidden to come up into heaven and see the things that should be hereafter, the vision of iv.

Before Him all the elders and the living creatures fell down and acknowledged that He had power to open the seven seals thereof, and their song was re-echoed by every thing alike in heaven and earth.

But when the seer is exalted tg heaven he sees no trace of the turmoil on earth.

But his time is at hand; together with his hosts he has been cast down from heaven, and on the earth he "hath but a short time."

We constantly meet with the idea that the soul, on leaving the body, finds its path to the highest heaven opposed by the deities and demons of the lower realms of heaven, and only when it is in possession of the names of these demons, and can repeat the proper holy formula, or is prepared with the right symbol, or has been anointed with the holy oil, finds its way unhindered to the heavenly home.

Society, he considered, was an ordinance of heaven, and was made up of five relationships - ruler and subject, husband and wife, father and son, elder brothers and younger, and friends.

There was a screen between them at the interview, such as the present regentempresses of China use in giving audience to their ministers; but Tze-lu, one of his principal disciples, was indignant that the master should have demeaned himself to be near such a woman, and to pacify him Confucius swore an oath appealing to Heaven to reject him if he had acted improperly.

Twice again, during his protracted wanderings, he was placed in imminent peril, but he manifested the same fearlessness, and expressed his confidence in the protection of Heaven till his course should be run.

Then he wept and mourned beyond what seemed to his other followers the bounds of propriety, exclaiming that Heaven was destroying him.

In biblical use the word is applied to the company of angels in heaven; or to the sun, moon and stars, the "hosts of heaven," and also to translate "Jehovah Sabaoth," the Lord God of hosts, the lord of the armies of Israel or of the hosts of heaven.

You cannot acquire the proper attire for heaven by your works.

Please say a special prayer for the families with angels in heaven celebrating Christmas.