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Angliholic Posted 18 years ago
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the heavens/the heaven
The sky lanterns will be launched into the heavens/heaven, carrying people's wishes with them.
Which fits better in the above, heavens or heaven, and why? Thanks.
Which fits better in the above, heavens or heaven, and why? Thanks.
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Heavens -- it refers rather literarily to the sky. Heaven refers to the place where good souls go after death.
- Heavens -- it refers rather literarily to the sky.
- Heaven refers to the place where good souls go after death.
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Heavens-- it refers rather literarily to the sky. Heaven refers to the place where good souls go after death.
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Mister MicawberHeavens-- it refers rather literarily to the sky. Heaven refers to the place where good souls go after death.Thanks, Mister.
But I still have a lingering question, namely, why is the singular sky equal to the plural heavens?
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Heaven: plural use in sense of "sky" is probably from Ptolemaic theory of space composed of many spheres, but it was also formerly used in the same sense as the singular in Biblical language, as a translation of Heb. pl. shamayim. Heavenly "beautiful, divine" is from 1460, often (though not originally) with reference to the celestial "music of the spheres.
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Mister MicawberHeaven: plural use in sense of "sky" is probably from Ptolemaic theory of space composed of many spheres, but it was also formerly used in the same sense as the singular in Biblical language, as a translation of Heb. pl. shamayim. Heavenly "beautiful, divine" is from 1460, often (though not originally) with reference to the celestial "music of the s
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