Sky

SKY (Heb. shahaq, vapor). A word found only in the plural in the Bible (Ps.18.11; Isa.45.8). The word refers sometimes to the clouds and other times to the firmament. At least once it is used figuratively (Deut.33.26).

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)

(shachaq, "fine dust" or "cloud," apparently from [?] shachaq, "to rub," "to pulverize"; Samaritan: shechaqayyah instead of Hebrew shamayim; sachq = "cloud," "small dust"):

1. In the Old Testament:

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2. In the New Ttestament:

In the New Testament ouranos, is translated "heaven" (the King James Version "sky") in connection with the weather in Mt 16:2,3; Lu 12:56. In Heb 11:12 we find "the stars of heaven" ("the sky") as a figure of multitude. The conception, however, that the visible "sky" is but the dome-like floor of a higher world often makes it hard to tell whether "heaven" in certain passages may or may not be identified with the sky.

See Heaven; Cosmogony.