单词 | heaven of heavens |
释义 | > as lemmasheaven of heavens heaven of heavens n. (also heaven of heaven, heavens of heavens) the most exalted level of heaven; (figurative) a place of supreme bliss; cf. seventh heaven n. [Compare post-classical Latin caelum caeli , lit. ‘heaven of heaven’, caeli caelorum , lit. ‘heavens of heavens’ (both Vulgate), Hellenistic Greek οὐρανὸς οὐρανοῦ , lit. ‘heaven of heaven’ (1st cent. b.c. or a.d.), οὐρανὸς οὐρανῶν , lit. ‘heaven of heavens’, οὐρανοὶ οὐρανῶν , lit. ‘heavens of heavens’ (both 4th-5th cent.), Hebrew šěmē haššāmayim the highest heaven, lit. ‘heaven of the heavens’ (Old Testament; in the Talmud referring to the same concept as seventh heaven n.; compare sense 5d), Arabic samā’ al-samāwāt the highest heaven, lit. ‘heaven of the heavens’.] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun] blissc1175 Edena1225 heaven bliss?c1225 joyc1275 blessedheada1300 blissfulheada1340 third heavenc1384 paradisec1395 benisona1400 blessednessa1400 heavena1413 jocundnessc1426 everlastingness1434 jocundityc1450 beatitudea1492 beatification1502 blessedfulness1526 beautitude1578 Elysiuma1616 suavitya1617 seventh heaven1786 heaven of heavens1885 OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Deut. (Claud.) x. 14 Heofon & heafuna heofun [L. caelum..et caelum caeli] & eorðe & ealle þa þing þe sind on him sind Drihtnes. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms cxiii. 16 The heuene of heuene [a1425 MS. S. heuenys; L. caelum caeli] to the Lord; the erthe forsothe he ȝaf to the sones of men. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Psalms cxlviii. 4 Praise ye him heauens of heauens [L. caeli caelorum], and waters, that be aboue the heauens. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. iii. 44 Calling him the euerlasting Father, the Walker vpon the Heauen of Heauens. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings viii. 27 The heauen and heauen of heauens cannot conteine Thee. View more context for this quotation 1684 P. Ker Flosculum Poeticum 34 To Heaven of Heavens I will thee bring; Thou shalt be Subject, I'll be King. 1688 M. Prior Ode Exod. iii. 14 106 The Heaven of Heavens, the high abode, Where Moses places his mysterious God. 1709 J. Dennis Appius & Virginia iii. i. 35 I'll seize th'enchanting Joy,And to the Heaven of Heavens my Raptures raise. 1800 G. Bennet Olam Haneshamoth xvii. 325 The words of St. Paul establish an express distinction between this and the heaven of heavens to which he ascended. 1885 J. H. McCarthy Camiola I. vii. 156 The heaven of heavens into which he presumed, an earthly guest, was the West End of London. 1925 V. Lindsay Coll. Poems ix. 381 If there is vengeance in the Heaven of Heavens, What punishment could Heaven devise for these. 1997 P. Helm Faith & Understanding iv. 97 It is by contemplating the divine nature that the heaven of heavens is saved from change. < as lemmas |
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